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I've made a one-page guide to help with the latest call to action and hopefully help you discover some awesome Canadian tech (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by FallenWalnut@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42135952

There are a few Canada specific Social Media platforms coming up as well. EH Social and Monnett.Social are topping the list.

I hope this can help you or others make the switch to support a local business 💪

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[-] FlareHeart@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

Nice list, though do be careful with Shift (browser). It's Chromium based and so heavily dependent on Google's continued development.

[-] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but had to include it given that it is the only Canadian option. Personally, would recommend an open-source alternative like Waterfox

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

Sorry to nitpick. I am sure you know what you are talking about but people are easily misinformed and so definitions matter.

Chromium is Open Source. Waterfox is no more Open Source than Chromium.

Chromium is primarily developed by Google. So, you should be vary of their intentions and also aware of the potential fragility of a project dominated by one large player.

That said, Waterfox has exactly the same problems. As a fork of Firefox, it is dependent on Mozilla.

[-] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Completely agree on this, and maybe I mispoke. I meant that Shift isn't entirely open-sourced. You are right that Chrome based on Chromium is open-sourced.

I tend to favour Firefox forks though as I have more trust in Mozilla as the primary developer.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Amazing stuff, thank you!

Some other things I've learned:

Qobuz has some Canadian collaboration: https://www.quebecor.com/en/-/qobuz-la-plateforme-de-musique-de-haute-qualit-c3-a9-bient-c3-b4t-disponible-au-canada
worktree.ca: "An end-to-end Git, DevOps, and Cloud platform. Create Git repositories to store and collaborate on source code, build and test with Actions workflows, and deploy to Worktree Cloud."

Fediverse specific:

Canadian based / hosted Fediverse instances: https://madeincanada.social/
Canadian based instances: https://thesocialweb.ca/

[-] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the resources! Will look at included it for the next version

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

And lemmy.ca

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

the lack of Brave in your browser recommendations makes me question the motivation behind your other recommendations

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

I think you replied to me instead of the post itself

Brave is listed on their website, and maybe it wasn't included in this shortlist because it's US based and has had a number of controversies

[-] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

Is Kobo and Ratukan Kobo two separate companies. Otherwise it is Japanese owned I think ?

[-] jupdown@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

I was actually curious about the same thing but I guess while they're owned by a Japanese conglomerate, they were/are Canadian based? From their Wikipedia page:

Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name Kobo is an anagram of book.

[-] jupdown@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

What a subtle detail... I'm actually disappointed in myself for not noticing this before:

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Their online book store is way more expensive than the competition, but if that's the cost of supporting some fellow Canadians, I'll gladly sacrifice my capital. 🫡

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Kobo supports ePub; I just run my own Calibre server and buy my books from those who publish DRM free, or sign it out from my local library.

[-] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

The website explains it better - https://ca.purchasewithpurpose.io/

They are owned by a Japanese company, but are headquartered in Canada. So helps with employment.

[-] StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Great reference, thanks.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

For Operating Systems, both OpenBSD and GhostBSD are Canadian.

https://www.openbsd.org/

https://www.ghostbsd.org/

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

OpenBSD's lead dev is Canadian, but there are folks from all over the world contributing to the code base.

[-] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Didn't know that! Will add it to the list

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

What are people using as a 2FA app, Google authenticator doesn't require an account for now but I obviously want out. I wnat it to be fully local and not tied to a password manager.

[-] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

You can give Ente Auth a go OR Aegis

[-] FlareHeart@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I use Aegis

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I use a Yubico Yubikey (German) and use passkeys where possible. Manual setup means you don’t have to pass the key through GAAMM servers.

[-] ztar_473@thelemmy.club 0 points 3 months ago

most password managers integrate 2FA

From experience, 1Password does it perfectly and Proton Pass got ot recently-ish and it's working great

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

I don't want to store my passwords in the same place I store my 2FA codes, so in the case where my password manager is breached I'm hopefully not completely pwned. I also do not want them to have any sort of syncing (that's why we have those 1 off emergency codes). I tried Ente from another comment and that meets my needs.