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Canadian alternatives to Big Tech? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 22 hours ago by wendigo@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
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Trying to replace all my US based big-tech choices for Canadian alternatives.

Main ones:

  • cloudflare (domain and site hosting)
  • bitwarden
  • discord (a true alternative, but not sure if there is one)

Willing to hear of other recommendations for daily software as well :)

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[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

For bitwarden/discord, there's a few alternatives that could be self-hosted, for those that are comfortable with doing that. Aside from that, not sure what else is Canadian? i've listed what i could remember.

  • cloudflare
    • i don't know if there's a site that has everything that cloudflare does, but moving your domains to a Canadian registrar is a step in the right direction, IMO.
    • depending on what you need for site hosting, there are many canadian-based hosting solutions out there. i've personally used lunanode for vps hosting, but there's a lot out there.
  • bitwarden
    • i host my own instance of vaultwarden, an easy to host and open source compatible bitwarden server.
    • 1Password is Canadian i believe? never used them myself.
  • discord
    • i don't think there's a good Canadian answer here, and definitely nothing as polished, but there are a few open-source projects that could be self-hosted:

I've also been running linux as my main os lately too, which has been a nice change so far.

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Adding to this, I recently got the mautrix-discord bridge set up for myself and while it isn't perfect, its pretty good for keeping up with the few communities I am a part of.

Note that if you are using discord for group chats, matrix doesn't replace discord yet (group voice calls arent ready for production yet), nor does the discord bridge allow you to even see voice only channels.

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