A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.
Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.
1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services
2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
3. AI Content Policy
Not allowed: AI-generated images or articles
Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries
4. When discussing a Canadian product that isn't available nationally, please do your best to specify where it can be purchased
5. Only content in French and English is permitted
6. Declare all self-promotion
Users are encouraged to report any content that violates our community guidelines
1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens
2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.
3. Politique sur le contenu IA
Non permis : Images ou articles générés par l'IA
Toléré : Résumés IA de publications
4. Lors d'une discussion sur un produit canadien qui n'est pas disponible à l'échelle nationale, veuillez faire de votre mieux pour préciser où il peut être acheté
5. Seul le contenu en français et en anglais n'est toléré
6. Déclarez toute auto-promotion
Les utilisateurs sont encouragés à signaler tout contenu qui ne respecte pas nos directives communautaires
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Canadian government should host its own Mastodon server for public service announcements and discourse.
Please build it somewhere cold in Canada so you don’t have to waste energy cooling the place.
Also, is anywhere in Canada a potentially good source of geothermal energy?
I present to you: Chibougamau, Quebec. There's a higher education institution not too far away to train technicians. It's north enough that it's fucking cold. It's also pretty close (comparatively) to the massive hydro electric dams that powder the entire province to make significant savings in transmission losses, and the transmission network reaches all the way to major cities to easily piggyback fiber deployments!
Every government should have a public competitive corporation in every aspect of infrastructure. Cloud, water, etc. If they're going to free market it, they need to stoke competition.
100,000x this
We are fucked over a barrel right now.
Most of my web services I have moved away from the US things, and have replaced them with Canadian things. I also use a pair of piholes to block ads many of which are sold by google and other US companies. I wish there was a real alternative to YouTube as I could move to that rather than using Unwatched to block ads.
The alternatives to YouTube already exist, like PeerTube. The issue is lack of content and the critical mass to attract content creators.
Yes but as I understand it there is no money in it for creators.
There's https://freetubeapp.io/ for the desktop and https://newpipe.net/ for Android phones.
I have moved away from using Safari or chrome/chromium because I do not want to give Apple the joy of seeing me use Safari. I use Vivaldi, sure it is based off of chromium but developed by a EU company and blocks some ads and it is not letting me go to freetubeapp.io/.
I use the app Unwatched for my free youtube with ad blocking.
and news media majority, and native social media, and...
Yeah we're sucking their media and storage teat hardcore. A lot of things really. Dependent in general.
Bring back Nexopia!
I cancelled all of my US streaming services and started paying for CBC gem if I so want to watch the news.
I stopped using Facebook proper long before the boycott, and only used messenger but have not used it for a long time. A group I belong to uses discord I tried to get them to move off of that but the group as a whole would find it difficult to move to whatever else I found (do not remember what it was). I try to avoid using using Reddit and have replaced it with lemmy.ca to use lemmy. The only reason I have a Bluesky account is because one of the creators I follow posts on there when he is going live.
Somehow I just can't see this happening with Carney in power.
Would it be his copious investments in american tech giants? Or his vanishing backbone regarding US relations now that he's in power?
Yes
Is NextCloud the only solution out there that will free me from the clutches of US tech giants? I really want to cancel my Google Ones subscription but I don't know if I have the necessary skills to run my own instance...
I'm thinking the opposite...we need to go back to analog and unplug ourselves from this globalist digital dystopia they are creating. They aren't going to be happy until our brains are plugged into the Matrix and our DNA is tortured into a shape that pleases them.