Boycott USA Flyer

Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.
This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.

The snacks section could use a lot of chocolates but then again as European it's hard to find American chocolate: Milka, Ferrero Rocher, Lindt, Tony's Chocolonely, Callier... Just to name a few.
I was surprised to see Toblerone on the American side, apparently they're under an American company nowadays! TIL
Also, Logitech isn't Chinese? Huh, TIL as well

??? Bluesky is an american comany what the hell are they on about
- There’s a footnote on Bluesky and Signal that says that they are American non-profits.

Thank you - from (sadly) an American

I would be cautious to trust an American company just because they are non-profit. We know that if they get sufficiently big they can just transition into being for profit (see OpenAi), chances are regulations regarding this won't become stronger later.
Signal being open source of course helps, but it's usually the ecosystem that people grow to rely on that keeps them in place, not the technology. Just look at how big Reddit is compared to Lemmy for a good example of that. If signal was federal that would be quite different since jumping ship would be easy.

Honestly a lot of this is just good advice in general, even speaking as an American.
Also, oof that General Motors apparently isn't important enough to be worth avoiding (and that ~~Chrysler~~ Stellantis no longer counts as American).
- GM sold their european division to PSA in 2017, which is now part of Stellantis.
- this flyer is full of lies. It was made by someone who doesn't understand globalism or what a non-profit is.
- Maybe they don’t have a huge physical presence in Europe like ford does

For clothing id probably recommend thrifting. But I love this list.

First time i see this sub on the frontpage.
You should boycott evil corporations regardless of where they are from, don't make it a nationalistic thing, some of the alternative suggested here are as much bad as their usa counterpart. You are not achieving shit by switching from nike to adidas...
- The last line on the document says "Perfect is the enemy of good. Every little bit counts."
  It's pretty apt. To deal with this particular issue it makes sense to divest from one country to another regardless of brands. Divesting from mega corporations is another issue entirely and beyond the scope of this boycott.
- No you see, when the workers are locked in the burning production plant, it matters a lot if they are are murdered for a billionaire who avoids taxes in the EU, as opposed to a billionaire avoiding taxes in the US.

You do know that RedBull is owned by a right-wing extremist in Salzburg who tries to undermine Austrian democracy with Servus TV the same way Murdoch and Springer do in Germany and elsewhere?
- If you really like it, its easy to steal

Consider buying Solovairs instead of Dr martens. They're basically the same, the main difference is that they are made in the UK in a factory that used to make Dr martens before they delocalized their production to Asia
- When my Solovair became too worn to wear, they sent me replacement soles, like, the whole bottom half of the shoe, and put me in touch with their repair guy to have them put on. Great service through and through, and lovely people!

Spond?
Spond is The Free Sports Team Management App Chosen by 1000's of Teams Worldwide!
Social media? Sports management is social media????
- Social media gets used by a lot of amateur sports teams, especially ones where the players are kids. There's a lot of parent communication that goes through facebook, instagram, etc.

You can add Miele to the appliances list.

This list seems a bit flawed, for instance on the travel line, Trivago is owned by Expedia in the US and Booking is headquartered in Amsterdam.
Also including BlueSky seems a little odd given the intent
- Re Bluesky I did some "I am not a lawyer" digging.
  Bluesky is owned by "Bluesky Social PBC", a Public Benefit Company registered in Delaware.
  Generally speaking it means when decisions about the company are made, they must take into account how that decision benefits their stated public value. I struggled to find the specific value wording, but let's assume it's a reasonable one for the time being.
  Unfortunately being a PBC is basically voluntary, especially when you're still a private company. You can become a non-PBC with a simple board vote. (A public company would require a stockholder vote.)
  Bluesky's board consists of four members, one of which is Bain Capital, aka the company funding Bluesky.
  So Bluesky is absolutely a better alternative to Twitter. If everyone left Twitter and moved to Bluesky that would be a monumental improvement.
  However Bluesky is not a non-profit company, as the above graphic states.
  
  bluesky is just Xlite.
  
  Huh, Bain is Romney's group. Didn't know they were involved there.

I've barely seen any of the drink alternatives (unfortunately).
Besides Redbull, which I don't drink, I've seen fritz cola, but that's usually at 2-2,5x the price of a coca cola. As an alternative that really stings.
- Water
- the drink alternatives feel rather german-centric lmao, like fritz seriously?
  the only one i know as a more widespread brand is zingo and red bull. And really, we're talking about 3 categories of drink here: cola, orange, and caffeine. I would be very surprised if there aren't at least 3 generic brands available per country that taste perfectly okay and are cheap as fuck to boot.
  
  Is Fanta made mainly for the European market? Like nobody in the US even knows what that is. They used to love it in Germany though.
  
  Hahaha for some reason the generic sodas from Aldi/Lidl/... Slipped my mind. Most of them don't taste that great though. Guess it's a good excuse to just drink more water ( and add a bit of lemon juice or other slices of fruit for flavour ).

L for Proton mention.
CEO is fascist loving boot licker
Edit: company rescinded statement Andy Ten Yen made
- I am still waiting for anyone to give actual evidence for that. Stating on twitter that the Democrats were unwilling to even listen to their concerns, while the Republicans were willing to meet, seems to be quite far from bootlicking imo.
  The whole outrage seemed to be engineered in the same way there were people claiming Proton would be a CIA assets, but never providing any lead, not even some obscure untrustworthy website making such a claim.
  
  Looks like the company officially recinded the statement Andy Yen made. Posted text to avoid Xitter link
- Fastmail is a good non US alternative. Based in Australia.
  For those that don’t know about Proton. Proton CEO said “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.” The company then doubled down on a Reddit post which it eventually deleted.
  You have to be blind or a liar to look at what the Republicans have done in the last 10 years and think they pro little guy.
  Despite claiming political neutrality, Proton later issued a statement reiterating its support for stronger antitrust measures, particularly against Big Tech. The company noted that regardless of broader political views on the Republican platform, the appointment of Gail Slater as head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division under Donald Trump was a positive step.
  So they don’t care how bad the government is as long as it helps them. So not a Nazi but willing to support them if they can get something out of it. Furthermore it is also not true. The US under Trump has threatened Europe multiple times to defend big Tech.
  Proton further argued that major tech companies were attempting to align with Trump because his administration posed an “unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.” This statement only fueled concerns that Proton was leaning politically despite its claims of neutrality.
  They don’t seem to understand what politically neutral is. Also if you wanted a president that went after big tech, Biden did way more than Trump:
  Under President Biden, the DOJ and FTC have taken a more aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement.
  The Justice Department filed another suit against Google over its dominance in the advertising technology space and sued Apple for allegedly monopolizing the smartphone market.
  Biden’s FTC also sued Amazon for antitrust violations, accusing the e-commerce giant of engaging in anticompetitive behavior to dominate the online retail space.
  Proton also lied about logging user data.
  In 2021, Proton Mail admitted to handing over a user’s IP address to Swiss authorities following a request from French law enforcement via Europol. This revelation contradicted Proton’s earlier claims that it did not log user data.
  
  Yikes that's worse than I thought

This seems to have been made by a Swede.
- what do you mean sibylla (being named after a member of the royal family in sweden) isn't an international brand??

Pretty sure Qwant just uses Bing's index for search
- Same goes for Ecosia though both are now creating a European search index.
- They're working on European search indexer along with Ecosia
- It's pretty much just Bing and Google no matter what engine you use nowadays. Well, unless you go with Yandex or chinese search engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines - Mojeek is a meta-search engine, but it also crawls the internet itself, which makes it very interesting.. I might give it a go.

And for software like Microsoft and Adobe:
- Lol who's using winamp and real player in 2025?
  
  Who's using VLC in 2025? It renders colours in mkvs so badly sometimes! mpv (with SMPlayer as front end) is where it's at!
- FreeCAD is a start, but nowhere as good as AutoCAD, unfortunately. I haven't tried GIMP's v3.0 version yet, but 2.x is terrible to use. Depending on what you need to do, Krita would be a better alternative.
- Look, I love Audacity which is an awesome audio editor but it is absolutely not an alternative to Logic or Fl, which are DAWs.
- Audacity isn't a good replacement at all for those. It has a different purpose. There should be LMMS and Ardour instead
- The best alternative to commercial CAD systems is commercial CAD systems if you know what I mean. That said, FreeCAD is the only option if you want to run on Linux. Inventor, Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc, are all borked even in wine.
- Some more recommendations
  Category FOSS
  
  Media player mpv
  Drawing Krita
  Vectorial illustration Inkscape
  Video editing Kdenlive
  Music making Ardour
  
  I don't know Ardour but these are actually solid!

Category	FOSS
Media player	mpv
Drawing	Krita
Vectorial illustration	Inkscape
Video editing	Kdenlive
Music making	Ardour

Delta Chat is a European decentralized instant messenger alternative using existing protocols.
- protocols? isn't it just a very quirky email client?
  
  Yea email is a protocol

HMD could be mentioned in electronics, they're Finnish and they make smartphones. The CPUs in some of their phones are from Unisoc who are Chinese; maybe some people would want to know that. In their other phones they use Qualcomm CPUs, and Qualcomm are American.
Also there are more alternatives to American goods/services outside of Europe, e.g. goods/services from places like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand.
E.g. South Korean cars (Hyundai and Kia) or Taiwanese electronics (Asus, Acer, MSI).
- Also there are more alternatives to American goods/services outside of Europe
  Yeah but the point of "Buy European" isn't just anti-American. It's to you know...Buy European. You defeat the purpose when you go buy something built in Asia.
  
  True the point of this community is to buy European. I'm in Europe (the UK) so I like the idea of buying European.
  OP's post talked about boycotting the USA though, so I'm just saying that there are more options as well as European ones if you want to boycott the USA.
  Also the countries I mentioned have relatively similar values to Europe.
- he CPUs in some of their phones are from Unisoc who are Chinese
  AFAIK you can't make a phone without some Chinese components.
  
  I wonder if that's true, maybe it is. I wonder if Samsung phones have Chinese parts. I think they use Samsung or Qualcomm CPUs, and they're made in Vietnam and India rather than China. Maybe some parts are Chinese, they could well be.

Also: avoid AKG, consider Austrian Audio.
AKG is a popular brand in professional music and audiophile circles. It was bought by Samsung in 2016, who promptly drove the company into the ground, closed their Austrian facilities, and moved headquarters to America and production to SE-Asia. AKG's name is now used for brand recognition on Samsung's generic big tech garbage. Yes, I'm still salty about it.
Austrian Audio was founded by the actual engineers who worked at AKG, currently owned by a Danish audio tech company. They produce high-end professional headphones.
- Sennheiser and beyerdynamic are also big competitors in the hi-fi market. Both are German.

Funny how most of the list is pretty one sided with all of the famous brands on the same side, but half them items have the famous brands in America and half have it on the European side.

I'd really like to get rid of Google Maps, but the alternatives I've tried failed to make a good replacement.
I use the bus / tram / metro more than anything, and occasionally drive long distances. I'm okay with having two different apps for driving and public transport.
Any suggestions ?
- Öffi works really well. See coverage on their site.
- Organic maps? Magic earth? Osmand?
  
  Organic maps works really well but it doesn't do realtime traffic right?

Shop at Aldi or Lidl (German). Although Asda isn't owned by Walmart any more, so I think British supermarkets are all pretty British again, apart from Safeway but I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
- Lidl and Kaufland should be avoided.
  https://gruppe.schwarz/en/press/archive/2021/schwarz-group-acquires-israeli-hybrid-cloud-cybersecurity-innovator-xm-cyber
  From the Hebrew Wikipedia article:
  https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A1_%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8
  The company's product runs on Amazon's AWS cloud, and similar products are in development for Microsoft Azure and Google's GCP environment.[2]
  Aside from running deeply integrated into US cloud providers, it is reasonable to assume for Israeli cybersecurity companies that they have links to Israeli and US intelligence. And the CEO Noam Erez is advertised as "he spent 25 years with the Israeli intelligence community" https://xmcyber.com/team/noam-erez/
  So buying at Lidl helps Trump and Netanyahu.
- why not just tell people to shop local? do other countries just not have domestic chains anymore?
  i know switzerland has coop, and last i checked there's a who series of cooperative grocery stores throughout europe..

Don't forget A.G. Barr for drinks, Iron Bru, Rubicon

Love to see Europeans jumping on board as well. At some point Americans only customers will be Russia and North Korea if Trumps administration keeps bullying and alienating countries like this.

For messaging: Element on Matrix (decentralized)
- I like Fluffy Chat more with the account switching.
  
  the fluffychat website literally says it's a matrix client lol

Is any 7-11 still US? I thought 7&I holdings here in Japan bought it all.
- Parent company is Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd. But still run with headquarters in Texas and US CEO and president.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven

Delta Chat might also be worth mentioning/adding. Haven’t used it extensively but the feature set is promising.

Damn, I wish I had MAX were I live. I was in Sweden last summer and my SO didn't let me go to MAX 😭

Mistral le Chat is an idiot, sadly. I’d love an alternative to OpenAI, but that isn’t it.

Isn’t the proton guy like a Russian Nazi or something?
- He is the Antichrist, singlehandedly causes global warming and I believe he might also have played a role in the spread of the plague in Europe in the 1300.
  Like seriously, accusations of this caliber should be supported by solid evidence. If you can't bother even reading the context of what all the noise was about, don't go around commenting on the topic?
- educate yourself on the topic before spreading misinformation
- No.