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European Alternatives - Business Software in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Thanks for the feedback! We already have badges identifying same on the website: https://buy-european.net/ Would indeed be a good idea to add them to the infographics too.

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The next infographic is ready. Any feedback is appreciated!

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[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

Love all the activism!

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[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It might become a valuable resource either by people manually deciding by the listed country if they want to use the company/product or once we implement labels that highlight EU based entities. So if it's okay for the post to stay in the EU based community, great. If not, understandable too.

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[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We are not "Buy EU", we are "Buy European". In the future we might differentiate between different "types" of European commitment (like EU manufacturing, European manufacturing, Outside Europe manufacturing) but right now we include all companies headquartered in Europe. Once we have a sophisticated database we can focus on the details and enriching said data.

Buy-European.net - European database for products, services, brands and companies in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because people snipe domains and then not use it. The only "catchy" domain we found was .net If the .eu owner wants to transfer ownership, we are ready to change it in a heartbeat.

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[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the shoutout! We appreciate data contributors submitting new suggestions here: https://buy-european.net/suggest

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Buy-European.net - European database for products, services, brands and companies (buy-european.net)
 

Thanks for the shoutout, a887dcd7a@lemmy.world

If anyone wants to contribute, we appreciate suggestions using the "Submit suggestion" form on the website: https://buy-european.net/suggest

Quick info about our approach: We list both European businesses as well as open source/decentralized solutions (as there is no specific location). We want to support European businesses as well as the idea of open source/decentralized services.

We currently do NOT evaluate the quality of the entries ethically/morally - we simply list companies with a European headquarter. This is because tbh we currently don't have time for more and would want to lay out a framework that is transparent and evaluated by multiple parties to ensure objectivity.

Ideas like evaluating whether the company actually produces either in the EU, in Europe or outside Europe might be factors in the future for a rating (gold, silver, bronze or something similar) but currently the focus is and will for the near future stay on listing all as many European options as possible which is a lot of work.

We also list European companies that are owned by foreign entities as they still fall under European legislation. This will probably not change in the future but similar to the above mentioned a ranking that takes this into account might be added in the future.

Hope that helps.