this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
69 points (98.6% liked)

Buy European

10426 readers
435 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.


Matrix Chat of this community


Rules:

  • Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.

  • Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:

  • Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.

  • No russian suggestions.

Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:

  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
  • No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
  • Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
  • Do not spam or abuse network features.
  • Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
  • No generative AI content.

Useful Websites

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:


Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:


Banner credits: BYTEAlliance


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I currently have Spotify, mainly because I signed up a while ago and never really bothered to explore alternatives.

I pay โ‚ฌ13 every month these days which I feel is quite a lot. I was already thinking of getting a few friends together and sharing a family plan, which would make it cheaper. But if I'm doing that I might as well take a proper look at my options.

What are some good, hopefully ethical, European alternatives? I know Spotify is from Sweden so good in that regard (?). Deezer is French, but also mostly owned by some American investment firm. If I can believe what I read they pay artist a bit more, which sounds like a good thing, but I don't want my money to mostly go to American investors...

Any advice is highly appreciated!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] thesdev@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At the first glance Qobuz seems to be the obvious answer. I tried it for a couple of months at the start of the year however and couldn't make the recommendation algorithm work for me. Also some features like lyrics are missing, while others like the magazine are not interesting to me, however they take up almost all of the homepage of the app.

I have since switched to Deezer (despite the American majority ownership) and it has been a much better experience. I think it's the right balance.

[โ€“] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Deezer being owned by a Russian oligarth and Kremlin ties.

https://lemmy.ca/post/48824629

[โ€“] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nice, came here to post my thread about it. Cool to see it made some effect and is remembered! I will always tell others that deezer isn't a good choice.