Nice list, though do be careful with Shift (browser). It's Chromium based and so heavily dependent on Google's continued development.

Amazing stuff, thank you!

Some other things I've learned:

• Qobuz has some Canadian collaboration: https://www.quebecor.com/en/-/qobuz-la-plateforme-de-musique-de-haute-qualit-c3-a9-bient-c3-b4t-disponible-au-canada
• worktree.ca: "An end-to-end Git, DevOps, and Cloud platform. Create Git repositories to store and collaborate on source code, build and test with Actions workflows, and deploy to Worktree Cloud."

Fediverse specific:

• Canadian based / hosted Fediverse instances: https://madeincanada.social/
• Canadian based instances: https://thesocialweb.ca/

Is Kobo and Ratukan Kobo two separate companies. Otherwise it is Japanese owned I think ?

For Operating Systems, both OpenBSD and GhostBSD are Canadian.

https://www.openbsd.org/

https://www.ghostbsd.org/

What are people using as a 2FA app, Google authenticator doesn't require an account for now but I obviously want out. I wnat it to be fully local and not tied to a password manager.

EH Social and Monnett.Social

Both are app-only, no desktop version available.

I already have far too many single purpose apps cluttering up my online existence.

If we want Canada specific Linux distros:

https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=Canada&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults

What are your thoughts on Filen? I need a good solution and it works okay. Not sure if I should keep shopping.

Damn, I don't know why I thought Bitwarden was European. Is Bitdefender any better?

I didn't know about stingray, thanks!

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.

This is really cool!

Out of curiosity, why are there American alternatives to American services that don't have any other icons (like environmental, profit share, etc)?

Bold move posting to lemmy.ca and not listing lemmy.ca, but including a reddit link at the bottom.

I just signed up for northmail.ca and it's an NextCloud set up, which is cool. However, I can't get Thunderbird to connect with it.

Missed mstdn.ca (though contrary to other comments, bluesky should also stay).

Mastodon, not BlueSky!!

BlueSky the same inevitable corporation enshittification waiting to happen as X…

I'll also add that the developer behind PixelFed and Loops is Canadian,

EMAILS

54% of Americans don't read above a 6th-grade level, and you want to write like them?

Do you guys know of any better alternatives to Discord and Slack? I tried Stoat to organize a Japanese class with Lemmy users, but I couldn't get voice chat to work (at least from their web interface and Android app) and many people couldn't even get passed the sign-up process seemingly due to issues on Stoat's side.

Is this generated programmatically? It would be much cleaner if you had the option of posting one or two "causes" -so you don't have to post about "Canadian tech" and include so many American alternatives. It would be less overwhelming to the target audience, and/or would have space for more options.

You cannot connect the free northmail.ca to Thunderbird. It is trash as webmail on the phone. So, unless you want to pay for this, it isn't with it. But, cool thing is they are using NextCloud to run their service.