During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partner for a 25-year cloud computing contract for the federal government. The contract’s length should have set off red flags of its own, but the…
I cancelled all of my US streaming services and started paying for CBC gem if I so want to watch the news.
I stopped using Facebook proper long before the boycott, and only used messenger but have not used it for a long time. A group I belong to uses discord I tried to get them to move off of that but the group as a whole would find it difficult to move to whatever else I found (do not remember what it was). I try to avoid using using Reddit and have replaced it with lemmy.ca to use lemmy. The only reason I have a Bluesky account is because one of the creators I follow posts on there when he is going live.
and news media majority, and native social media, and…
Yeah we’re sucking their media and storage teat hardcore. A lot of things really. Dependent in general.
Bring back Nexopia!
I cancelled all of my US streaming services and started paying for CBC gem if I so want to watch the news.
I stopped using Facebook proper long before the boycott, and only used messenger but have not used it for a long time. A group I belong to uses discord I tried to get them to move off of that but the group as a whole would find it difficult to move to whatever else I found (do not remember what it was). I try to avoid using using Reddit and have replaced it with lemmy.ca to use lemmy. The only reason I have a Bluesky account is because one of the creators I follow posts on there when he is going live.