Thanks for pitching in and for the extra info!

I’ll have to add it to my todo list since dont have a PC at hand and checking stuff/editing the side bar is a pain on mobile.

But will add it! :)

Hello Hanz, sorry for the delay! The friendica instances have been added!

It’s a short list but we wanted to vet the instances a bit with criteria and these are the best we found. Feel free to suggest more if you know good instances in Europe!

Thank you for the recommendations @caos@anonsys.net!

Seems like anonsys is hosted in Austria, could put it into austria category as well since we also got a recommendation for piratenpartei.social as a german instance, so we can suggest multiple (also loma.ml!).

Appreciate it!

Edit: ah damnit, loma.ml is by invitation only. But anonsys looks good!

Okay that sounds pretty good. Thank you for helping me out! I’ll put up piratenpartei.social as one of the options!

yeah also took me long enough to look into this and post about it ;)

I did find some hosted in netherlands (this is what I used initially to find instances, but also check the list view on that page)

Sadly none of the dutch ones met all the criteria listed in this post :(

Hey thanks for the recommendation! Do you happen to have any experiences with that instance? Is it hosted by patrick (breier?) from piratenpartei?

Ah great idea, thanks Sunshine!

If you look at the servers that are online and hosted in europe, the amount is admirable, but sadly many of the instances do not meet the criteria mentioned in the above post.

Many of the ones in Germany do meet the criteria and I’d like to find recommendations from german users because there are too many to check and compare. We’d like to put up 1 or 2 recommendations on !buyeuropean@feddit.uk sidebar.

Sounds like a good idea, I’ll put it on my todo list! Sorry for the delay, a bit of a busy week.

I’ll discuss this in the mod chat since I don’t know much about friendica but I believe others know more :)

Holy shit A1, so it should work! Thanks for the link and thanks for offering to check for me.

I think I’ll have to give this a try. I don’t have a backup phone so might wait for my holiday lol.

Thanks Rikudou! This entire time I thought /e/OS might be my only other choice.

I’ve seen SailfishOS been thrown around here on lemmy, but never actually looked it up.

If bank apps can be made to work on it then I will definitely take a look! Thanks for the tip!

I have been wanting to get off google’s android for so long, but it’s just too important to have bank apps work…

I’ve been super interested in /e/OS since fairphone had an option to have it preinstalled on one of their models. Glad to hear positive experiences!

I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks!

Way to go! I’m still working on that, but I’m close as well :)

Bit envious on the dumb phone part. I just can’t live without my bank app, browser and signal. There were these “half dumb half android” phones from Nokia and they seemed to work well with messaging apps but bank/browser was bit clunky.

Whaaat linux mint my beloved is Irish! Awesome!