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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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 💪
I see you did not put Mastadon in the social networking.
I still use Youtube but I use Unwatched on my iOS devices (that I would replace if I had the money) and some ad blocker on my Raspberry Pi that I plan on replacing my AppleTV with.
I use some Canadian NextCloud host for my cloud storage however I am thinking of moving away from that and hosting my own NextCloud, with off site backup at a family members home.
I may move away from 1Password to Bitwarden
I use pi-hole to block ads on my home network (Google is the largest ad network), there is another free alternative some AdGuard I believe (pi-hole is also free). I moved my blog to hosthero from Wordpress and changed it from a .com to a .ca address, I also got the unlimited email account so that I can give everything its own email address (servicename.randomwordandthreerandomnumbers@reannlegge.ca) and then they maybe forwarded to one of 6 email addresses that I check. I get next to no spam, if I get random spam I can see exactly where it is coming from.
I VPN into my home to block ads on my phone when I am away from home.
For TV I dropped all of my streaming services but started paying for CBC gem, not that I was seeing ads on the TV shows I watch but I can now watch the news if I want to. I canceled my very basic TV service because I was not going to pay for the US channels just to watch the news on occasion and the CFL games during the season. During the CFL season I pay for TSN streaming. For the shows I like from channels that are not CBC I use the *arr apps and Jellyfin.
Mastadon is usually on these guides but I removed it for EH Social. Probably should have kept it and removed Bluesky instead.
Nicely done on the rest of your progress! Clearer further along than most.
Instead of removing Eh! Remove Blue sky. More people need to use Eh!, I have no intention on using it as I do not want my info scrapped for advertisements but https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/08/22/eh-canadian-social-network-launch/