Buy European

I didn't know Soundcloud was European. Been using them for a while, my only complaints are: lack of ability to report much of anything, lack of moderation, and a system that incentivizes poor quality uploads of popular songs to avoid automated detection.

If you let it autoplay after picking a popular song you might get a list of bangers or you might get sped up trash uploads with an unfortunate high pitch tone that I imagine must have been outside of the uploader's hearing range. Occasionally it plays some guy reading phonetic scripts like he's just learning to read for the first time for an hour, but it made it into the list because it's titled after a beatles song.

It's pretty telling that, as a European, I've literally not heard of any of those European alternatives.

Last time I checked ecosia gets it's search queries from Bing, just a heads up. Other than that I'd say it's really solid.

Peertube has this fediverse problem. You google it, go to the webpage and instead of getting a list of promoted videos, you get an explanation of what it is and a manual on how to actually join, starting with „select a pot“. You then get to search the list of pots that all have like 10 viewers and 5gb upload limit. I stopped at this point.

That being said, i really would like an European youtube alternative, but not off the „provide your own hardware“ kind.

This is missing Spotify and TomTom unless I am missing something

Organic Maps ftw.

For maps I'd also like to add Organic Maps, OsmAnd and Magic Earth.

Isn't mapy.cz just an OSM wrapper, but proprietary?

Where's Signal (or molly if you need foss)? Signal is an non-profit organisation, so I'd say it can hardly be branded 'from' anywhere unless you're talking about servers location but then...

Calling Peertube a Youtube alternative is just wrong. It is an alternative in theory but it probably doesn't even have a milionth of the content that Youtube has.

Im European and the EU can go fuck themselves.
Plenty others to choose from.

Missing out the big one here - Spotify is also European fyi.

As a musician, I don't like SoundCloud. The free upload limit is way too small, their compression is not great and every time you do anything they try to sell you one of their subscriptions, which also cost way too much imo.

If other musicians didn't use it as much I would have already thrown it out long ago.