Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media
by Sebastian Vogelsang

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Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media

Sebastian Vogelsang thinks policymakers are overlooking the potential for developing platforms on decentralized, open protocols.

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#BuyEurope and Made in China - how do they go together?

You can find the answer in our new blog post:
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At a time when national interests often take precedence over common solutions and dialog is replaced by power games, many of us feel a strong need:
➡️ For stability.
➡️ For reliability.
➡️ For responsibility - also regionally.

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #EUTech #BuyFromEU #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #SupportEurope #unplugTrump

Are you looking to replace Google Maps and choose European?

Gladly, we have a lot of alternatives!

#GoEuropean #BuyFromEU #BuyEuropean #Degoogle #GoogleMaps #HereWeGo #Trump

Hetzner 🇩🇪, a leading Germany's cloud providers, has joined the Mastodon family - and created their very own instance! 🥳

There's a giveaway for those who are already customers. Check out their profile to see it: @hetzner

Giveaway terms: hetzner.com/legal/giveaway

#BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU #hetzner

Someone here suggested WERO, we read about it and have just activated it in our bank. It was very simple and took 2 or 3 clicks.

An all-in-one digital wallet solution:

Wero is a new European payment system designed to modernize the way we handle transactions across the continent. Launched in 2024, it aims to unify various national payment solutions into a single platform.

Wero is the brainchild of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), a consortium of 16 European banks. The initiative was born out of a need to create a sovereign and unified payment solution for Europe, reducing dependence on non-European payment systems like Visa & Mastercard.

With Wero, sending money to friends and family will be much easier because it allows you to send and receive $$ instantly using just an email address, phone number, or QR code. No more IBANS, 3 days of waiting to receive 💸 etc.

It's also a good alternative for Paypal 🇺🇸 and it is designed to replace several national payment solutions, including Giropay 🇩🇪, Paylib 🇫🇷, Payconiq 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 and iDEAL 🇳🇱 which not always work cross-borders.

The roadmap is full of features to be implemented like online and in-store payment.

For the moment, it's available only in Germany, France and Belgium.

Website: wero-wallet.eu

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Wero - Digital payment wallet

Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.

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This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany

Docs is an web-based collaborative text editor that is the result of a joint effort led by the French 🇫🇷🥖 (DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).

It's a good alternative to popular services like Notion, Google Docs and Outline.

The platform offers real-time collaboration capabilities, a sleek minimalist interface, and all the essential features you could possibly need.

Best of all, Docs is open-source on GitHub and can be self-hosted, making it a viable option for local agencies and companies.

You can test Docs on your browser by visiting this page:

impress-preprod.beta.numerique…

using the login:

email: test.docs@yopmail.com
password: I'd<3ToTestDocs

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You can also volunteer to help translating Docs to other languages here: crowdin.com/project/lasuite-do…

#europe #europeanalternatives #germany #france #opensource #BuyFromEU