2d ago

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

A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.

1d ago

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

codeberg.org /Taffer/canadian-alternatives

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Duolingo if you're learning French: mauril.ca

You should post this to buycanadian.

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

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.

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.
- This. People write all sorts of cute-sounding licenses that deter people from contributing or forking because of the unknown legal consequences.
  
  Public domain? https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives/src/branch/main/LICENSE
- Also for web hosting: https://peaceworks.ca/
- Source.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- Dont license NC. People gotta eat.
  CC BY-SA is perfect
  
  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...