Not really emergency notifications but news, which tbh isn't as important in this case because non-Canadian news orgs aren't affected and are covering it too. So there isn't an immediate risk I don't think.

As for the main point: The problem is that a subset of the population ONLY gets information through one platform. The only way to reach them is through that platform, and not reaching them means excess costs when you have to rescue/treat/otherwise deal with the fallout. It's also the government's job to inform people and keep them safe.

At the same time, the companies need to be regulated by the government. Can't just let them have free reign because they seized control

I was chatting with a friend, and she mentioned how she tries to at least set up a README, which includes her vision for the project and her plan for the implementation, design, and goals.

Best case scenario is that the planning helps her complete the project herself. Worst case scenario, someone else can pick up where she left off and use her considerations for the project.

I'm thinking of doing that for future projects too

I don't agree with the solution the government came up with, but the problem still exists and I don't understand it well enough to come up with an alternative solution.

Making news is expensive, and good quality news (not mucked up by corporate interests) needs a way to fund that work. We don't want news to be an outlet for corporations investing in a mouthpiece. So traditionally this was done through advertising.

Now people barely ever click through to the websites so the advertising doesn't work. Meanwhile the places where people ARE seeing the news do have ads. The content is produced by one party, and the profit goes to another.

The problem exists and needs a solution, but I don't know what it might be. Australia brought in a similar law successfully and Facebook/Google came to a deal. Canada might also be able to do that?

The other long term solution IMO is to make the platforms obsolete with things like Mastodon and Lemmy. That might take some time though

Yep, it works perfectly

Bitwarden has it too, but eggs in one basket etc.

That's what my tool is working towards! It uses OpenFoodFacts data. Right now you can manually type in the UPC codes to search

https://lemmy.ca/post/38474037

https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/product-search

I tried Sync for a bit, but I agree with the other posters that the pricing model is a little outrageous.

Have you considered adding a donation option through google play? I'm not sure what the process is like, but it might make it easier for people to donate.

I'm also planning to set up a community on this instance project, if there is enough interest for it. I didn't make the commuinity yet because I haven't settled on a name. I mentioned those plans here:

https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/community

This is something that is probably better if implemented in Lemmy itself. It would be tied to a particular community, and it wouldn't need to cross over between instances.

If someone tried to make a browser extension for it, it would only appear for people using the same browser extension. Some third party apps have it like that, and it's not that helpful.

What's better for a browser extension / app to take on is cross-instance functionality, such as jumping between instances, having buttons / content in the UI, etc. I'm working on an extension for that ( [email protected] ), and while I really want flairs as well, I don't think it would be good for a browser extension.

Once it's implemented in Lemmy itself, then we could probably make it easier to add/remove/view/filter flairs using a browser extension.

That's fair, I've posted here in the past but I'll take it off my list moving forward. I think early on there wasn't much content so it was ok, but now that the community is rolling it's not that relevant

It's good feedback!

Could you share which link? They seem to be working for me.

I was having DNS issues when setting it up, which could be related

https://madeinca.ca/

This is great! I might remove the blog section and focus on the search functionality, since there are a lot of these compilations/guides already.

We're actually working on a browser extension for this! It currently supports both communities and posts

![email protected]

We ran into the same issue, federated sites are hard to work with. Right now, the extension has it so that a user needs to right click on a link to be redirected. That way the user can choose which links get redirected, and there's no chance of accidentally redirecting the wrong thing.

There are other solutions (using the API for example), but they seemed to slow the browser down too much. Another proposed feature that hasn't been implemented yet was to redirect when holding down a key (when holding down "r", try to redirect the link).

Feel free to take a look, try it, and you can totally contribute code. It's all open source and we've tried to keep the code simple and easy to verify/contribute.

This is amazing, thank you for reaching out to the dev!

This was on the list of ideas for InstanceAssistant, but I didn't know where to start. It is great news that it was added to the original extension.

Yep, use lemmyverse.net to search.

We're integrating lemmyverse.net searches into the browser extension were working on (see more on https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant) so that it pops up right on the Lemmy UI,, but for now I just open it in a new tab

What's a good place to get/hold domains these days?

I've been working on the ![email protected] extension :)

RES initially helped me get into Reddit, so hopefully this helps people get into Lemmy as well

I agree, instance assistant (our extension actually!) handles this, but it would be much better to have it exist natively.

I like this one

https://canadiangeographic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/36835094-Northwest_Passage_Wall.jpg

That t-shirt would be cool, but don't have time to properly test our extension before then

I'm looking forward to December when I'll have time to work on it. I'll try to attend some office hours, I didn't know that was an option

I personally find a lack of downvotes to be annoying and harmful. People don't go through the trouble of reporting problem content, and it usually leads to poor quality inflammatory content rising to the top.

If you're new and haven't really set up yet, explore other instances. You can find one that aligns with what you want out of Lemmy without jumping through hoops.

If you have set up, there are account migration tools for you. They just aren't perfect yet

Please share any ideas for what to call the tool / project!