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 💪

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    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.