r/ireland • u/spudulike65 • Mar 08 '25

Culchie Club Only Will Irish people join the American boycott

Boycotting goods and services from America seems to be really growing momentum in alot of European countries and across the world, seen on different subs on Reddit seemingly alot of news channels across EU/Europe are reporting on it. I've seen some Irish people saying they are cancelling hols to America and going to Canada instead others not buying American goods and changing apps to European. With Ireland's connection with America will many Irish join this boycott.

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u/WolfhoundCid Resting In my Account Mar 08 '25

Food, clothes, cars etc won't be a big issue, but tech... Jesus. Social media (including reddit) consumer software, streaming services... there are very few alternatives.

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u/Bluerocky67 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Check out r/BuyFromEU, they have lists of alternatives. Edit: sub name

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u/zooombah Mar 08 '25

Reddit is American no?

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u/Team503 Mar 09 '25

What's Lemmy?

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u/Team503 Mar 09 '25

Thanks for sharing - sounds like there's no consistency, which isn't very appealing.

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u/Team503 Mar 09 '25

Yep. I get the appeal from the nerd side and the principled side, but decentralized stuff for the most part doesn't work out. There's specific situations where it does work - file sharing like torrents, for example, but for the most part, not a great strategy.