Just to elaborate a little bit on this, the telecoms in Canada have achieved complete regulatory capture and are essentially an unfettered oligarchy with territorial monopolies. They own and operate their own regulatory body, the CRTC, which lets them do whatever they want and rules whatever way they want them to decide in any situations. Occasionally the government itself steps in to force a tiny fraction of some utterly reasonable demand on them and they scream in every media source (all of which they own) about how they’ve violently murdered and annihilated the entire industry with such horrible rules and then they pettily cancel infrastructure projects and lay people off to make their point before continuing on as completely business as normal as if it never happened because of course it was completely harmless all along.
So that’s the telecom environment here. All coverage and internet access sucks, unless you’re in a major city or along a path between major cities, and this is why. But if you’re in a major city then you have to deal with major city real estate prices. This is the Canadian dilemma. Starlink has been a godsend for many people in rural areas (which is the vast majority of people in Canada, according to our telecoms, where you go down the wrong cul-de-sac and become rural) although with Musk involved that’s just replacing the very evil devils we know with one very evil one we don’t. For the van-living life you’ll need to make that important decision about how you’re going to get connected to modern society, and all of the options you’re going to have will feel really bad. On the whole Starlink will likely be the best of a bad bunch but you’ll have to figure that out for yourself based on whatever situation you find yourself in. Worth keeping in mind though.
I understand why some companies still post there. I don’t understand why companies don’t ALSO post to at least one of Bluesky or Mastodon, preferably both. It’s literally free. This is not a huge decision with a massive financial impact. Just fucking do it.