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Canadian Alternatives: A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists. (codeberg.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Canada really needs a domestic search engine and chat,/messaging platform. Those are two huge gaps thatnhace major privacy applications

[-] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

While I'm all for having local services like search engines. I don't think we need more "messaging platform" services. At least not new complete platforms. I'd argue something like a Canadian popularized Matrix host or something.

Full disclosure, I'm American but fully support not depending on us. We fucking suck.

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

True and even using a federated search engine would be great

[-] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?

Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn't necessarily be "federated", but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else's hosted version (probably for a price).

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

to help distribute indexing and prevent any one server from getting it's crawlers blocked. Every search engine server contributes to one another in the federation, and when you search it might hit other servers

[-] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

This is amazing. Though I would recommend licensing under something like CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

While you are entitled to write your own license, nobody who is familiar with copyright licensing will ever use your material, as the license isn't commonly recognized.

[-] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Also for web hosting: https://peaceworks.ca/

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

This. People write all sorts of cute-sounding licenses that deter people from contributing or forking because of the unknown legal consequences.

[+] Tea@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

I searched for your licence and believe it is the "Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law) or Public Domain Certification 1.0 United States" licence which isn't recommended for use by the people who wrote it. It also seems like it's only applicable within the United States, which I'm going to assume you don't want. They have a licence chooser you can use to find a recommended licence. The OP suggested one from this list.

[-] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Edit: https://lemmy.ca/post/39897968/14863180

~~Yes, your license is self written~~. Use a standard license like the one I mentioned, and it'll allow people to have better understanding of the legal consequences, such that the content is actually suitable for use in other creative works.

For example, what happens if there are conflicts in laws with the license, which jurisdiction is the default? What is the legal status of derivative works?

There's too many unknowns, and for that reason, anyone understanding copyright law would entirely avoid using your content.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Dont license NC. People gotta eat.

CC BY-SA is perfect

[-] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Non-Commercial doesn't mean you can't make money off of the content. It just means that the primary intent cannot be for money.

A commercial use is one primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en#ref-commercial-purposes

Although corporate greed has arguably had a bigger contribution to preventing people from eating...

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

You should post this to buycanadian.

[-] Slax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Duolingo if you're learning French: mauril.ca

[-] SnowshadowII@beige.party 3 points 5 months ago

@Tea Excellent list --thanks . : )

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

This is great, thanks! I've been looking for a VPS provider to get rid of Linode and had trouble find alternatives in my $8/month price range that I currently pay.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks!

I'm now trying to see how to get Sync.com to work as a backup provider!

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Nice list. ServaRica should be added. They're based in Montreal.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Do y'all have NSL equivalents up there?

[-] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 5 months ago

Also serverica for hosting.

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