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I just found this when looking for Canadian alternatives. Anyone else hear about gander? I'm doing my best to support home grown and open alternatives but I have to choose what I am doing on the platform. It's unlikely that my older family will ever leave Facebook, but honestly, what do I miss by not being present there? Birthday posts on my wall and the latest vacation picture...

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[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I quasi-moved off of Facebook several years ago, mostly because I could not block the ads. Now because it is from the US. So I really have no need for a Canadian alternative to the book of faces. I have a blog if I want to scream into the void, and I am not going to be served ads doing this. I can post pictures I can write stuff about whatever, future employers wont have to do all their sneaky poop to check me out on Facebook and see what my friends are like. With my Canadian host I have unlimited emails so now everyone is getting their own email address to send me stuff, let it be person, business, or service I was trying to get close to having this done with Apple’s hide my email service but now that I have cancelled that service I have been given the opportunity to do it even better. Sense I found out my ISP uses exchange for their email service I have been trying to get that address empty, I know Microsoft aint looking through those emails but it is still a Microsoft service.

Plus have you ever seen wild geese? The are fucking anngry assholes.

[–] Dhar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Hey, which Canadian host are you using? I'm in the market for one.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Not the person you asked, but I've had some luck with ovh. The web interface is a little jank, but it's super cheap for tiny a vps. Once you get ssh access it's like every other cloud provider. Not sure how their offerings for managed services is, since I run everything on vps (very small scale).

Next up I'd really like to try self-hosting, and cut out the cloud entirely.

[–] Dhar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the info. I typically self host everything, but I don't run an email server; too much work.

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