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Hi 🙋,

you might be in search for an reddit alternative and don’t get the Lemmy thing, yet. Lemme help you out, shortly.

1. Lemmy lets you build communities just like you are used to.
2. You need an account to participate. I doesn’t matter on which server you register.
   1. https://feddit.org/ → German/English community
   2. https://feddit.uk/ → UK centric
   3. List of other servers
3. Lemmy servers (instances) host communities and can be interconnected.
   1. @user@example.com can follow local or remote communities
      • [!community1@example.com](/c/community1@example.com)
      • [!community2@niceplace.com](/c/community2@niceplace.com)
      • identified almost as easy as an e-Mail address.
4. Following a community is called subscribing, you’ll find a subscribe button when browsing communities.
5. Subscribing will keep you noted on new posts.
6. Mobile clients can make the experience more fluffy
   1. Voyager
   2. Arctic (iOS)
   3. List of other clients

Our community is called !BuyFromEU@feddit.org but there are several likeminded communities out there. Make sure to watch out for them, e.g. by browsing an instance's local communities. Also if you want to stick around we posted about What to expect (from this community) and Where to start (buying european).

Feel free to link this post, when onboarding people to this community.

(Repost with author change)

In the last weeks several databases and websites emerged around the idea of buying European, or local.

Coming from different communities overviews of products and services can (for example) be found at the following websites:

• https://www.goeuropean.org/ : Community based database. Make your own suggestions!
• https://european-alternatives.eu/categories : First comer. Dev can be found on mastodon for suggestion.
• https://buy-european.net/categories : Community based database. Make your own suggestions! Devs can be found on mastodon and lemmy.
• https://github.com/uscneps/Awesome-European-Tech
• https://codeberg.org/Made-in-EU/Made-in-EU

If you are using Firefox or Chrome you can be nudged to do better by using the opensource Go-European-Plugin:

• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/go-european/
• Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-european/klmgadmgadfhjgomffmpamppmkajdloc (If you know any other starting points feel free to comment.)