While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.
  • aldfin@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    53 minutes ago

    Gotten rid of nearly every US digital service I have. Physical stuff I will still probably roll with my Apple devices until they wear out since they’re relatively new, but almost all the data and apps are basically European and/or open source services. Work related stuff remains the challenge. Next phone will be HMD.

  • humourme@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 minutes ago

    can you imagine if the movement that we are experiencing in canada takes place all over europe? that would be huge

  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    4 hours ago

    Support your local breweries and buy their sodas and not coca cola <3 I do this and ngl Oettinger cola-mix and Riegele Spezi are amazing

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Oh yes. I’m a developer and I’ve stopped using DigitalOcean and switched to Hetzner.

  • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    4 hours ago

    I know that my country - The Netherlands imports a lot from the US, so i am trying not to. Ditched all my Meta accounts, closed Amazon account/prime and Kindle, moved away from Google to several other services, stopped several streaming services and when we buy products from the supermarket actively check wheter products are from the US, and replace them with local/EU/Canadian products.

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      From Canada, I’ve done the same as you, but I’m struggling to de Google. Any suggestions?

      • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 hours ago
        • Protonmail (i know it gets a lot of backfire on lemmy) and tutamail for mail
        • Proton drive for google drive
        • for travel i use TomoTom Go (amigo is free)
        • Duckduckgo and librewolf as browsers
        • Qwant and Ecosia as search engines

        good luck, and don’t flame me for using Proton lol

      • a Kendrick fan@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        3 hours ago

        GrapheneOS, CalyxOs or LineageOs as an alternative to just using android.

        F-droid and Aurora store for almost all android apps, Obtainium if you can find your way around git forges.

        Tuta mail, Posteo and other alternatives for Gmail.

        Firefox and Thunderbird as replacement for Chrome and Gmail app

        Duckduckgo/Ecosia(uses Microsoft’s Bing), Kagi(good but paid), SearX(free but you can run into limits quickly), Marginalia(nonpaid websites only) :- all are replacements for Google search, also learn to use search bangs to quickly take advantages of different search engine

        i don’t use almost all of Google’s other products but a search would pop up other alternatives. Don’t forget to use Google Takeout if you have an account with them.

        Goodluck!

        • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 minutes ago

          Firefox and Mozilla to a larger extent may be going down the gutter soon. They have been angling towards AI shit, and then their new terms of service debacle this last week makes it clear they want to sell your data for ads.

          I’ve moved from FF to Zen browser, which is a fork. And also Librewolf, another fork.

        • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I appreciate it thanks! I’ve been using DDG and fire fox for a while. I’ll have to look up this Google takeout. Thanks again for the tips!

          • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Google take out worked for me to export all my google foto’s so i can save them somewhere else! I was using firefox as well, but moving now towards Librefox, duckduckgo browsers. I also like Vivaldi but not sure how good it is on the privacy meters :)

  • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    5 hours ago

    And so: Hello Lemmy! Here I am! Left ‘socials’ like reddit, dropped hotmail and google accounts … i’ts not much but it’s start

  • takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 hour ago

    the biggest US exports are its software products. Until the time we have a way to avoid Google, Reddit, Meta, Microsoft, ChatGPT etc, we aren’t boycotting anything meaningful.

    • Breadandbuns@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      28 minutes ago

      “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”. With changing our grocery and household purchases, cancelling Amazon and Netflix, and looking for alternatives to U.S. products, we are all doing the best we can, and I do believe it will make a difference.

    • aldfin@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      55 minutes ago

      Have already replaced basically all US software products for personal use. Unfortunately work related stuff can’t be boycotted yet, but hopefully we can see an improvement there too ASAP. Hardware still from Apple, but will once it becomes time to replace it I will definitely switch to a HMD phone.

    • KumaSudosa@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I’m on a now almost full boycott personally but my new Danish employer provides their employees with the newest iPhone (only phone you can choose… I tried to get another), American laptops, and uses Microsoft for everything including cloud. It’s the companies that need to start thinking and adapting. I aaked them “you know that all of our data is held by Trump-led USA, right?” And they just say “yea, but it is what it is”.

  • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 hours ago

    Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities… (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

    Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

    In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

    Btw, I’d have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a “european code review agency” might be a thing.

    • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Ditch GitHub start using codeberg.

      Plenty of office alternatives, outlook is easily replaced (didn’t know outlook had banner ads until recently, what a shithole)

      If you prefer vscode try codium, some plugins may be missing but so is lots of ms bloat. Kate is a stellar alternative too!

      • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        40 minutes ago

        Yep, I know that for myself. But I can’t switch away from github as that is where the huge company I work for has its stuff - and it needs convincing the enterprises, not the individuals.

        Personally I just have my own repos which I can move anywhere in an eyeblink. But it takes political power to. move governments, departments and companies.

        For example I have no way to ditch Teams or Outlook, because that’s the accounts my employer set up. I can’t ditch my RSA hardware token, because that’s what my. employer’s customer uses. I can’t ditch. my work phone as only Samsung and Apple are vetted.

        That’s something that needs to change on a pan-europrean level.

  • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    8 hours ago

    Here’s to hoping trump tariff war makes those stupid American pick-up trucks a lot more expensive to buy in EU. I hope the douchebags that bought them before have to pay way higher prices for parts now.

  • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    As always: the power of the working class resides in work. Organize your workplace. It doesn’t matter whether you stop buying cola, real impact will come if your workplace stops buying the overpriced 100k€ machine imported from the US tech sector. THAT’S where you really hurt them. Consumer expenditure is a minuscule amount of relevant key US exports.

    Organize your workplace, join a union and create a local branch. Join an existing revolutionary socialist party. Create mutual aid networks in your neighbourhoods.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    What exactly does the US produce that is imported into the EU? Consumer market, of course, where one person has choice in the matter.

  • Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    481·
    11 hours ago

    Can we collectively decide not to respect American intellectual property laws to really hit the tech sector where it hurts? We don’t get that many physical goods over here but most of our software is American owned. I advocate for not paying American tech companies anymore.

    • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      10 hours ago

      We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It’s due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

      With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

      We need an Europan open source stack.

    • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      5 hours ago

      If we start ignoring the laws, we are no better than Trump and his clowns clan. Go for the alternatives instead. Also, If you keep using the US software they still get all anvertisement and telemetry which is more valuable to them than the software itself anyway.

        • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          You’re entitled to that opinion, and feel free to suggest a change of law, but for now … it’s still the law. And obeying only the laws that suits your goals is very much Trump/MAGA style. Let’s not get down to their level.

    • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      EU regulations that can be triggered in response to tariffs include an option to make that completely legal

      Edit because I’m getting asked for a source: EU Anti Coercion Instrument that got passed in 2021 and came into effect in December 2023: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ%3AL_202302675

      Specifically Annex I, paragraph 7:

      ANNEX I

      Union response measures pursuant to Article 8

      […]

      1. The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights.

      This applies to copyright and patents, but not trademarks as far as I know.

      • beveradb@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 hours ago

        This sounds really interesting, do you have a link or anything I could look for in a quick search to learn more?

        • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          10 hours ago

          Search for Anti-Coercion Instrument, the one that came into effect in December 2023