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We search for alternative technologies with a focus on Data Privacy and control. We believe technology is neither good or bad but is a tool much like a hammer, it can be used to build or destroy depending on its user
Engineered with privacy-by-design, MeWe is the revolutionary social network with the social features people love and no ads, no targeting, and no newsfeed manipulation. MeWe emphasizes social sharing where people can be their true, authentic selves. MeWe members own their data and are customers to serve, and their data is #Not4Sale to advertisers, marketers, or politicians. MeWe members enjoy the protection of MeWe’s Privacy Bill Of Rights
BeReal is the simplest photo sharing app to share once a day your real life in photo with friends. Everyday at a different time, everyone captures a photo within 2 minutes. Capture and post in time to discover what your Friends are up to.
BeReal won’t make you waste time.
• BeReal is life, Real life, and this life is without filters.
• BeReal will challenge your creativity.
• BeReal is your chance to show your friends who you really are, for once.
• BeReal can be addictive.
• BeReal might frustrate you.
• BeReal won’t make you famous. If you want to become an influencer you can stay on TikTok and Instagram.
• BeReal may cause accidents, especially if you are riding bikes.
• BeReal is pronounced “BiRil”, not bereale, or Bèreol, it’s like B-Real from Cypress Hill.
• BeReal won’t let you cheat, you can try and if you manage to do so, come work with us.
For Tech SavyFediverse social networks differ from mainstream platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc). Mainstream platforms concentrate millions of users on one website, where they control all the decision-making, enforce censorship, and hoard users’ private data for commercial profit and spying. Fediverse networks, on the other hand, are developed by a community of people all around the globe, independent from any corporation or official institution. You are free to register on any Fediverse website you like. You can choose the person who will be in charge of your data – the administrator of your server.
Your privacy is important to Minds, Inc. (“Minds”, “we” or “us”). It is our policy to respect the privacy of our users regarding all information we may collect while operating our Services (defined in our Terms of Service). This privacy policy applies to our Services. This privacy policy sets forth what information we collect about users of the Services and explains how that information is used and protected.
Bastyon is an innovative social network and video sharing platform. Unlike the mainstream social networks, there is no corporation behind it, it is based on the Bitcoin model. Bastyon is an open source project run by a team of developers and experts, and its goal is to provide a community moderated platform where the freedom of speech is seriously respected.
Open Source Social Network (Ossn) is a rapid development social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website.
Ossn can be used to build different types of social apps.
- Private Intranets
- Public/Open Networks
- Community
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Librem Social offers you a public social media account, allowing you to follow friends and discover new ones among more than 2,000,000 people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is standardized, decentralized, and growing rapidly. Yes, you can follow and fully interact with people inside or outside the librem.one domain. (you are not locked-in to one technology company)
Gab is a social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. Gab Social is a fresh take on one of the Internet’s most popular applications: social networking.
Political speech protected by the First Amendment is welcome on this instance. Gab Social allows free (legal) speech, following legal guidelines as established by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“It’s so cheap to store all data. It’s cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.” - Mikko Hypponen,
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ProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service founded in 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland, by scientists who spent time at the CERN research facility. ProtonMail uses client-side encryption to protect email content and user data before they are sent to ProtonMail servers, unlike other common email providers such as Gmail and Outlook.com. The service can be accessed through a webmail client, the Tor network, or dedicated iOS and Android apps.
We are scientists, engineers, and developers drawn together by a shared vision of protecting civil liberties online. This is why we created ProtonMail, an easy to use secure email service with built-in end-to-end encryption and state of the art security features. Our goal is to build an internet that respects privacy and is secure against cyberattacks. We are committed to developing and widely distributing the tools necessary to protect your data online. Our team combines deep mathematical and technical knowledge from the world’s top research institutions with expertise in building easy to use user interfaces. Together, we are building the encrypted communication technologies of the future.
Tutanota is an end-to-end encrypted email software and freemium hosted secure email service. Its motto is “einfach.sicher.mailen” in German, meaning “easy.secure.mailing”. Its business model excludes earning money through advertisement. Instead, it relies solely on donations and premium subscriptions.
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Librem Mail offers you an end-to-end encrypted email account, ensuring that all communication is kept private by using best-in-class cryptography. Like all other services in the Librem One bundle, it allows you to communicate to anybody inside or outside the librem.one domain (you are not locked-in to one technology company).
Runbox provides flexible and high capacity, yet affordable email and domain hosting services that take care of your email, domain name, and web site for you. Launched in 2000, Runbox has over 15 years’ experience running high-performance and reliable services for individuals, professionals, and companies in more than 150 countries. Our solutions are built with the needs of our diverse customer base in mind.
In the age of mass surveillance and intrusive advertising, there is increasing demand for the protection of personal and sensitive communication. Runbox enforces strict privacy regulations by protecting our customers’ privacy and security, and our customers’ data is protected by Norway’s strong privacy legislation.
Guerrilla Mail is a free disposable email address service launched in 2006. Visitors are automatically assigned a random email address upon visiting the site. Email is kept for one hour before it is deleted.
10MinuteMail provides a temporary disposable e-mail service to beat spam with a free secure email address that expires in 10 minutes
DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers’ privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms. It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners and its own crawler.
YaCy is a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network. Imagine if, rather than relying on the proprietary software of a large professional search engine operator, your search engine was run by many private computers which aren’t under the control of any one company or individual. YaCy has a strong connection to privacy-aware tools. As such it does not collect personalized data. It also has no ‘phoning-home’ integrated. This web page does not use cookies. However, linked services may have cookies
Presearch is a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better results while protecting your privacy and rewarding you when you search. We believe that the best way to compete with the massive, centralized and monopolistic corporation that currently dominates search is to build a framework that enables people from all over the world to collaborate to build an open and decentralized search engine.
Search engines are the gate-keepers of the internet: they help us find stuff. We trust them like our closest friends, sharing our most private questions and thoughts. However, if you’re not using a private search engine like Startpage, all searches, including those about your health, family, finances, issues, and interests, are being logged into the digital profile Big Tech is collecting on you. For that reason, we created the first-ever private search engine with the mission of raising awareness of and protecting people’s worldwide right to privacy.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
Tor is free software for enabling online anonymity and resisting censorship. It is designed to make it possible for users to surf the Internet anonymously, so their activities and location cannot be discovered by government agencies, corporations, or anyone else. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than five thousand relays to conceal a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user: this includes “visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms”. Tor’s use is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being monitored. An extract of a Top Secret appraisal by the National Security Agency characterized Tor as “the King of high secure, low latency Internet anonymity” with “no contenders for the throne in waiting”.
Our mission:
To advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding.
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Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. It also provides users the choice to turn on optional ads that pay users for their attention in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) cryptocurrency. Users can then send contributions to websites and content creators, which support BAT in the form of tips along with the ability to keep the cryptocurrency they earned.
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Essentials is a minimal, uncluttered setup with privacy options that put you in control of your data. A lot of Vivaldi’s functionality is hidden to keep things streamlined. But it’s there if you need it.
Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go. -Bernie Sanders
FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published to the internet. FreeTube grabs data by scraping the information it needs (with either local methods or by optionally utilizing the Invidious API). With many features similar to YouTube, FreeTube has become one of the best methods to watch YouTube privately on desktop.
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Do you like watching videos on YouTube but want an intuitive, feature-rich and privacy friendly app for that? NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
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Odysee is a video sharing app that’s built on the open-source, decentralized, blockchain-based LBRY network. The use of this LBRY network as a foundation gives Odysee several distinct advantages over centralized video sharing platforms where a single company controls the data. These advantages include greater resilience to censorship, lower fees on tips and donations, and more transparency around how its features work. Since its beta launch in September 2020 and full launch in November 2020, Odysee has become the most popular LBRY app and already has millions of users and uploads. It offers a wide range of content in categories such as commentary, finance, gaming, how-to, news, politics, science, and tech.
DTube is a decentralized video sharing platform where a user can view and share videos. This platform is based on the Blockchain as well as P2P technology. The interface of this website is quite similar to youtube. The home pages have three sections Hot, Trending and New videos respectively. So, it will give you the latest and most popular video on the platform. Other than that, you can also explore the menu bar which is on the left side of your screen. There are options like watch later, watch again and trending tags in it. Also while watching the videos, you won’t be disturbed by anyone. Because this is an ad-free platform. So, there will be no ads while playing any video on the website. It provides users with multiple features like subscribe, rate and upload videos. The main feature is that you can upload any video without registering.
Not Privacy FocusedVimeo, Inc. is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices. Vimeo’s business model is through software as a service. They derive revenue by providing subscription plans for businesses and video content producers. Vimeo provides its subscribers with tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting, enterprise software solutions, as well as the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. As of 2021, the site has 200 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services.
Bitchute.com is a video website created by Ray Vahey and was released in January 3, 2017. The site utilizes the use of peer-to-peer WebTorrent technology, a JavaScript torrenting program that allows users to diffuse, redistribute and ease bandwidth and issues of centralized streaming. The Technology would also make it more difficult for companies and governments to censor or remove content from the site after it’s uploaded. BitChute is considered one of the most popular alternatives to YouTube and has an Alexa ranking of 1,129 as of October 8, 2021.
Rumble is an online video management company that was founded in 2013 and has enjoyed growing success with millions of users migrating to the platform in response to YouTube’s increased censorship of its users.
Its CEO, Chris Pavlovski, has vowed to never censor political discussions on the platform or adopt policies that dictate editorial policy. He has also written that Rumble wants to “provide an open platform where everyone can participate and create videos without subjective restrictions.”
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course. -Noam Chomsky
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The Session App is advertised as a private messenger offering privacy, anonymity, and security. With end-to-end encryption, no phone numbers for sign-up, and decentralization, Session is a messenger that truly keeps your messages private and secure.
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Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls, and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.
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Iris is like the social networking apps we’re used to, but better.
- No phone number or signup required. Just type in your name or alias and go!
- Secure: It’s open source. Users can validate that big brother doesn’t read your private messages.
- Available: It works offline-first and is not dependent on any single centrally managed server. Users can even connect directly to each other.
- Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums
- Messages are stored securely on your device, not in the cloud
- Connect directly with nearby contacts – no Internet access required
- Free and open source software
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. Telegram has over 500 million monthly active users and is one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the world.
With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences. You can write to your phone contacts and find people by their usernames. As a result, Telegram is like SMS and email combined — and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs. In addition to this, we support end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls, as well as voice chats in groups for thousands of participants.
Silence (formerly SMSSecure) is a full replacement for the default text messaging application: all messages are encrypted locally and messages to other Silence users are encrypted over the air.
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Librem Chat offers you an end-to-end encrypted chat application including text, voice, and video for one-on-one calls and large group chats. Based on the universal Matrix chat protocol ensuring you can communicate with people inside or outside the librem.one domain (you are not locked-in to one technology company).
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. – Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
LibreOffice (/ˈliːbrə/) is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite consists of programs for word processing, creating and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae. It is available in 115 languages.
An online office suite, online productivity suite or cloud office suite is an office suite offered in the form of a web application. It is accessed online using a web browser. This allows people to work together worldwide and at any time, thereby leading to web-based collaboration and virtual teamwork. Some online office suites can be installed on-premises, while other are offered only as software as a service. Of the latter, basic versions can be offered for free, while more advanced versions are often made available with a subscription fee. The latest offerings have been created to run as pure HTML5 web pages, known as progressive web applications, no longer requiring a Cloud or online connection to function. Online office suites exist as both, proprietary and open-source software.
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Notion is a notetaking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management. The app uses databases and markdown pages for use in personal and collaboration work.
Zoho Docs is an Online Document Management system where you can store all your files securely in a centralized location and can access them from anywhere and from any device. You can upload, store, create, edit, share, and view any type of file like documents, spreadsheets, presentations, pictures, music, videos, etc. Our advanced collaboration tools such as Shared Folders, Tasks and Groups will provide a collaborative environment for you and your team. You can also collaborate on documents in real-time, which is useful when you work as a team.
The decision to value customer privacy isn’t one you make after watching which way the wind blows. It must stem from prior belief, perhaps even dogma. This is exactly why we made the decision more than two decades ago that we weren’t going to sell ads inside our products, not even within the free editions. We’re not interested in tracking your clicks to feed the marketing monster. We will make our money the traditional way—bringing you valuable software that you are happy to pay us for. So why did we make this choice to put privacy first? Simple. We valued our privacy; we figured you would, too. And that’s why we’ve prided ourselves on being ahead of the curve when it comes to government regulations about privacy; we don’t need to be told what good business should look like.
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite that combines text, spreadsheet, and presentation editors allowing to create, view, and edit documents stored on your Windows/Linux PC or Mac without an Internet connection. It is fully compatible with OOXML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx.
Focalboard helps your software development team stay aligned to complete tasks, reach milestones, and achieve goals. Plan every project and hit every milestone with this open source alternative to tools like Asana, Trello, and Notion.
You already have zero privacy. Get over it. – Scott G. McNealy CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc
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Mullvad VPN AB is owned by parent company Amagicom AB. The name Amagicom is derived from the Sumerian word ama-gi – the oldest word for “freedom” or, literally, “back to mother” in the context of slavery – and the abbreviation for communication. Amagicom stands for “free communication”. Mullvad is an open-source commercial VPN service based in Sweden. Launched in March 2009, Mullvad operates using the WireGuard and OpenVPN protocols. Mullvad accepts Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash for subscriptions in addition to conventional payment methods.
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Online privacy is our core value at PIA. We prioritize the privacy, security, and freedom of our customers above all else. Our commitment to privacy is evident in everything we do — from our trusted open-source VPN protocols, to our proven no-logs policy. With over 10 years of expertise leading the VPN industry, we’re true privacy experts when it comes to keeping you safe and anonymous online.
We built ProtonVPN with extra security features to make it better at protecting your privacy than an ordinary VPN. When you use ProtonVPN to browse the web, your Internet connection is encrypted. By routing your connection through encrypted tunnels, ProtonVPN’s advanced security features ensure that an attacker cannot eavesdrop on your connection. It also allows you to access websites that might be blocked in your country.
Librem Tunnel offers you a virtual private network tunnel with no logging, ensuring that all your traffic is secure and shielded from random hotspots. By using standards-based VPN, you are not locked-in to one technology company.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. -C.S. Lewis
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F-Droid is a software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free and open source apps. Applications can be browsed, downloaded and installed from the F-Droid website or client app without the need to register for an account. “Anti-Features” such as advertising, user tracking, or dependence on non-free software are flagged in app descriptions.
If you’re tired of falling into line with Google or the official store does not work on your device, Aurora Store is a very valid alternative apps store. Aurora Store is a Yalp Store fork (Yalp Store is also available on Uptodown) that offers basically all the same features, but from a much more elegant and functional interface. Although it’s a fork, it’s basically the same app, and allows you to download any APK offer on Google Play without a google play account. Aurora Store has all the same information as Google Play. With this app, you can check app descriptions, screenshots, updates, other users’ comments, and download the APK directly to your device with just a tap. Not only that, but you can also search for older versions of apps on Aurora Store so long as you have the version code.
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be. -Albert Camus
Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.
Purism is a Social Purpose Corporation (SPC), which means we put social good above exploiting people. Librem One is a growing bundle of services—chat, tunnel, email, social, and more—from Purism, SPC.
We believe that privacy and technology can be ethical and convenient. Librem One allows you to reclaim your privacy, securely communicate to your friends, and does so easily with your freedoms intact. We bundle all the tools together for you to replace the privacy invading, locked-in, exploitative big-tech services. Putting you in charge of your digital life.
We provide products and services based on values that society wants, that respect digital civil rights. Welcome to Librem One, socially responsible services from Purism.
Sandbox & Co, we are focused on bringing families and educators the best digital experiences in a safe environment. By combining 21st century skill sets with cutting edge technology, gamification and personalization, we hope to create a world where everyone is empowered to learn.
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. -Edward Snowden
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AllSides strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
We expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other. Our balanced news coverage, media bias ratings, civil dialogue opportunities, and technology platform are available for everyone and can be integrated by schools, nonprofits, media companies, and more.
We are a group of volunteers whose mission is to present reliable, unbiased and relevant news. All our content is released under a free license. By making our content perpetually available for free redistribution and use, we hope to contribute to a global digital commons. Wikinews stories are written from a neutral point of view to ensure fair and unbiased reporting.
Anyone can write on Medium. Thought-leaders, journalists, experts, and individuals with unique perspectives share their thinking here. You’ll find pieces by independent writers from around the globe, stories we feature and leading authors, and smart takes on our own suite of blogs and publications.
The best ideas can change who we are. Medium is where those ideas take shape, take off, and spark powerful conversations. We’re an open platform where over 100 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Our purpose is to spread these ideas and deepen understanding of the world.
We’re creating a new model for digital publishing. One that supports nuance, complexity, and vital storytelling without giving in to the incentives of advertising. It’s an environment that’s open to everyone but promotes substance and authenticity. And it’s where deeper connections forged between readers and writers can lead to discovery and growth. Together with millions of collaborators, we’re building a trusted and vibrant ecosystem fueled by important ideas and the people who think about them.
We’re a proud non-profit organization building open source technology for journalism. Ghost was founded in April 2013, after a very successful Kickstarter campaign to create a new platform focused solely on professional publishing. Our mission is to create the best open source tools for independent journalists and writers across the world, and have a real impact on the future of online media.
Today Ghost powers an incredible range of websites; from individual bloggers who are just getting started, to large teams of writers and editors at some of the largest organizations in the world. We’ve built a sustainable business around a free core application, funded by a premium platform as a service to run it on.
We started Substack because we believe that what you read matters and that good writing is valuable.
We believe that writers, bloggers, thinkers, and creatives of every background should be able to pursue their curiosity, generating income directly from their own audiences and on their own terms.
When readers pay writers directly, writers can focus on doing the work they care about most. A few hundred paid subscribers can support a livelihood. A few thousand makes it lucrative.
Readers win, too. By opting into direct relationships with writers, we can be more selective with how we consume information, homing in on the ideas, people, and places we find most meaningful.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. -Ayn Rand
GiveSendGo is a free Christian fundraising platform. GiveSendGo is a unique social crowdfunding platform for those living out the heartbeat of God. We believe that everyone from Christian business owners, Missions organizations, Churches, Artists, Missionaries, or individual Christians were created by God with a Mission in mind.
Move Your Mountain was created in 2014 to give the faith-based community a safe space to raise funds without fear of being de-platformed for their Christian values. Because we process donations using Cornerstone Payment Systems, a Christian company, you don’t have to worry about your crowdfunding campaign being shut down because the company processing your donations doesn’t support your Christian values. This is happening more often than many people know. With Move Your Mountain, your Christian values can thrive—and so can you.
FundRazr is a free crowdfunding and online fundraising platform first released in 2009. FundRazr operates internationally in 35+ counties with the largest markets being United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. It allows users to run a wide-range of crowdfunding campaigns by creating fundraising pages and sharing it via social media, messaging apps, email and more to raise money for 100+ types of causes such as nonprofit, medical care, education, community help, poverty alleviation, arts, memorials, and animal rescue causes.. FundRazr also powers more than 4000 nonprofits, charities and social enterprises with an advanced fundraising toolset for free.
*Caution: May not be best option for politically controversial campaigns due to Canadian Government policies on speech censorship.
Liberapay is a way to donate money recurrently to people whose work you appreciate.
Payments come with no strings attached. By default, recipients don’t know who their patrons are, and donations are capped at $100.00 per week per donor to dampen undue influence.
By default, the total amount you give and the total amount you receive are public (you can opt out of sharing this info).
Liberapay does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by the donations to its own account. However there are payment processing fees.
Liberapay is an open project, you can help us translate it, improve its code, and manage its legal entity. If you do so, you’ll be able to join the Liberapay team and receive a share of the money that our users donate to keep the service running.
Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.
Open Collective enables all kinds of groups to raise, manage, and spend money transparently. Our open source software platform engages contributors and supporters, automates admin, and helps you tell your story.
Donorbox is a US-based technology company. It offers an online fundraising software that allows individuals and nonprofit organizations to receive donations over the Internet. It is used by charities, churches, mosques, schools, animal rescue organizations, political campaigns and other causes.
Donorbox has one simple mission: Provide nonprofits with simple, effective tools to manage their fundraising activities and connect with donors on a deeper level.
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it’s expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public. -Clay Shirky
The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organizations. It powers Wikipedia and also this website. MediaWiki helps you collect and organize knowledge and make it available to people. It’s powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customizable, reliable, and free of charge. We do not sell your email address or any of your personal information to third parties. More information about our privacy practices are available at the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy, donor privacy policy, and data retention guidelines.
FactSeek is a web application designed to search multiple online encyclopedias at once. Unlike general web web search engines that deal with very diverse web resources, FactSeek is focused on encyclopedic content. Search results of FactSeek are not distorted by advertisements and various search-engine optimization (SEO) methods to attract visitors. Searches are performed by accessing search results metadata of online encyclopedias directly. This ensures a sufficient decentralization and unbiased representation of search results.
Everipedia’s vision is to bring blockchain knowledge to the world and knowledge onto the blockchain, helping verify facts in an era of misinformation and unlocking a new class of use cases in the blockchain space.
a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real names. We write the kinds of encyclopedia-style articles that Wikipedia and other sites can’t write. We regard information as a public good and welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge on virtually any subject. Our online community prides itself on being congenial and supportive.
A free site featuring an Internet search engine, subject channels, current events, and essays, as well as the complete text of the encyclopaedia. is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia which is now published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia. It was formerly published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and other publishers (for previous editions). It was written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes[1] and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition.
Infoplease knows the value of having sources you can trust. Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with facts. Our editors update and regularly refine this enormous body of information to bring you reliable information.
Conservapedia is a clean and concise resource for those seeking the truth. We do not allow liberal bias to deceive and distort here. Founded initially in November 2006 as a way to educate advanced, college-bound homeschoolers, this resource has grown into a marvelous source of information for students, adults and teachers alike
The most dangerous and powerful people in the world do not carry guns or shoot missiles, they write code to surveil and suppress the opposing views.- Olawale Daniel
Brave Talk is a private video and/or audio conference tool. What you say or type in the service is not logged or saved. Who you talk to, when, and how, is private to you. Brave browser users can easily start a Brave Talk call from the desktop version or the mobile apps. Brave Talk is powered by the Jitsi as a Service open source video meeting platform from 8×8, a leading integrated cloud communications platform provider (NYSE: EGHT), using WebRTC open source technology that enables developers to embed HD video directly into the browser.
Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
Decentralized Real-Time Communication video chat. Meething is a semi-decentralized conference bridge using modern WebRTC, GunDB and MediaSoup to produce a hybrid MESH-SFU with strong privacy, zero user data retention and powerful off-grid capabilities.
Secure messaging, conferencing, file-sharing and more through end-to-end encryption for cloud, private cloud and On-Premises. Founded in 2012 by some of the founders of Skype, Wire originally aimed at protecting personal users communications and data from cyber attacks. Thanks to its strong privacy laws, Wire was originally headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Recognizing the growing need for secure communications within organizations, Wire moved its focus to the B2B and B2G space in 2017. At the same time, former Huddle CEO Morten Brøgger joined as CEO, along with Rasmus Holst’s as Chief Revenue Officer, working alongside founding team member Alan Duric, CTO/COO.
Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing. -Jodi Rell.
Blockchain
BBS is a network of user-owned message boards BBS is like a forum with moderators, now decentralized to run on any website. The network itself is the collection of all the BBS boards, wherever they are. Anyone can create a BBS, on any subject, and run it on their own domain. Every post is actually an NFT that users can create, buy, sell and collect revenue from the ad space on posts they own.
BBS is Censorship Resistant
The BBS message board software utilizes blockchain technology as a public database. This means that all BBS users, content and wallets can always be recovered, and can never be censored, shut down, seized, or altered by anyone, not even BBS.
We aim to provide an ‘apolitical-by-default’ experience, while providing a platform for all. Generally, all legal content is permitted, but communities may have their own rules. Scored is a technology company providing a neutral platform for communities. It is our responsibility to prevent illegal content from appearing on our platform, as well as spam and inauthentic campaigns designed to damage the platform’s reputation, but we are confident in our inability to regulate ideas.
Scored does not currently have any revenue streams, but it is comfortably positioned and in great standing. Additionally, Scored has never taken outside investment, nor has it performed any services or favors in exchange for capital.
“Big Tech’s business model is based principally on data collection and advertising, which means devising ways to manipulate individuals to change their behavior—and then selling that opportunity at manipulation to big corporations. The result? An addiction economy designed to keep us online as much as possible, as long as possible, to sell us more and more stuff and collect more and more information.” ― Josh Hawley
Founded in 2009, Epik has earned an industry reputation for exceptional service and support. For many customers, Epik is a one-stop shop for their entire web presence: domain name, hosting, monetization, and web development services.
The Epik registrar is a direct registrar for most of the registries of the world. Our all-inclusive pricing approach provides a no-nonsense shopping experience when purchasing domain registrations and hosting services. Epik has a long-standing reputation for protecting the registrant. Known as the Swiss Bank of Domains, Epik offers all registrants access to state of the art domain security. Integrated WHOIS privacy services are provided at no cost to registrants. The Epik domain marketplace allows cost-efficient and secure buying, selling and leasing of domain names. Epik is the largest domain name lease management provider in the world, powering more domain name leases than any other provider.
We believe privacy is an important piece of democracy and that we all should have the right to be anonymous.
Njalla was started because we couldn’t find a domain name service that we wanted to use ourselves. We care about privacy, and it needs to be simple and flexible.
For instance, when you register a domain name in our system, we can register with our own data. We will be the actual registrant of the domain — it’s not an ownership by proxy as found with all other providers. However, you will still have the full control over the domain name. You can either use our information (and our nameservers) or you can go with your custom data. And you can move at any time. Simple, flexible. Everyone says they’re different and how cool they are. Startups talk about how they want to disrupt an industry. We just want a decent society; like most people. We build the services that are lacking. The most interesting people that use our services are the ones that make us have to go to court to protect them. Or get DDoS attacked. We’re not gonna win the entrepreneurship awards or get a big loan with that business plan, but we’re here to make life good and to make privacy extremely normalized. We accept lots of crypto currencies, like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, ZCash, DASH, Bitcoin Cash, Lightning (BTC), Ethereum… and we even support Paypal.
Bluehost is a leading web hosting solutions company. Since our founding in 2003, Bluehost has continually innovated new ways to deliver on our mission: to empower people to fully harness the web. Based in Orem, Utah, we provide comprehensive tools to millions of users throughout the world so anyone, novice or pro, can get on the web and thrive with our web hosting packages.
Our 15 years of experience, with roots in the Data Management and Hosting Industry, gives InnoScale the experience to help businesses choose the perfect solutions for their needs. Our experience means that you can spend less time and resources determining your infrastructure needs, and more time focusing on your core business. Let us evaluate your needs and help you design the ideal solution for you. Cloud computing can easily and quickly scale server resources to meet the fluctuating demands of today’s customers. InnoScale offers a full spectrum of cloud services, from the beginning web hosting client all the way to enterprise-class virtual private datacenters. Whether you need to host a single website, or run mission-critical applications.
“Perhaps it's time to dumb down our “smart” life. We are being tracked, listened to, data mined, recorded, and so much more without our real knowing or understanding. When are we going to make a stand for our right to privacy? That’s Tremendo Bullship!” ― Rosangel Perez
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.
Notes exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported. The notes can be securely synchronised using end-to-end encryption with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and Joplin Cloud. Full text search is available on all platforms to quickly find the information you need. The app can be customized using plugins and themes, and you can also easily create your own. The application is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. A Web Clipper, to save web pages and screenshots from your browser, is also available for Firefox and Chrome.
Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open source note taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 & Argon2.
Notesnook is our proof that privacy does not (always) have to come at the cost of convenience. Our goal is to provide users peace of mind & 100% confidence that their notes are safe and secure. The decision to go fully open source is one of the most crucial steps towards that.
Petitions, reinvented. Making petitions fair, reliable and free is our goal.
Pixelfed is a free and open-source image sharing social network service. It is decentralized, therefore user data is not stored on a central server, unlike other platforms. Pixelfed uses the ActivityPub protocol which allows users to interact with other social networks within the protocol, such as Mastodon, PeerTube, and Friendica. Using this protocol makes Pixelfed a part of the Fediverse. The network is made up of several independent sites that communicate with one another, which is roughly comparable to e-mail providers. The parties involved do not all have to be registered with the same provider, but can still communicate with each other. Thus, users are able to sign up on any server and follow others on the other instances.
Turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. Entirely free.
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
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A Person to Person payment network, the latest GabPay app, allows users to instantly transfer money from almost any financial institution in the United States to any person or business using a mobile or email. GabPay will power its vision of a Parallel Economy by enabling peer-to-peer payment processing. Gab has created a custom option for users to make transactions online, similar to other famous payment processors
Perplexity AI is a new AI chat tool that acts as a powerful search engine. It is designed to provide accurate and informative answers to users’ questions by searching the vast expanse of the internet for relevant information. Perplexity AI uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to examine text data from various sources, providing an in-depth analysis and helping generate fresh concepts
A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot. No GPU or internet required. GPT4All is an ecosystem to train and deploy powerful and customized large language models that run locally on consumer grade CPUs. The goal is simple – be the best instruction tuned assistant-style language model that any person or enterprise can freely use, distribute and build on. A GPT4All model is a 3GB – 8GB file that you can download and plug into the GPT4All open-source ecosystem software. Nomic AI supports and maintains this software ecosystem to enforce quality and security alongside spearheading the effort to allow any person or enterprise to easily train and deploy their own on-edge large language models.
By purchasing a Librem 5 phone you are supporting a future of digital privacy, invested in supporting an open, community-driven environment. Vote with your wallet to support a future safe from digital exploitation and create a secure and respectful environment for you, your children and society as a whole. You will love the Librem 5 because it will allow you to communicate with your child, while having peace of mind that they are not being compromised or tracked without your permission.
PurchaseTeracube Thrive has been created to provide a safe, healthy, and fun experience for children to enjoy the best benefits of today’s modern phones while protecting them from some of the harmful effects of phones that we all know too well. Unlike other smartphones, Teracube 2e is built with sustainability in mind, making it good for our planet, too. Teracube 2e has a replaceable battery, is DIY repairable, made from recycled material, and comes with a sturdy biodegradable case.
Contemporary mobile Linux operating systems have a way to go before they can be considered true alternatives to Android or iOS. While mobile Linux isn’t in a state that could satisfy most mainstream electronics consumers, we recognize that a sizable portion of our community is ready to make the jump to a Linux-only smartphone today. The PinePhone Pro has the raw horsepower to be your daily driver, granted you’re ready to accept the current software limitations.
The Gabb Phone Z2 protects kids while keeping them connected to family and friends. It gives parents peace of mind because it doesn’t have the Internet, social media or games.
Your Modern Minimalist Phone. Mindful design, essential functionalities, an eye-friendly E Ink display, an open source OS and ultralow SAR value
The FreedomPHONE is a free speech and privacy first focused phone. With features like tracking blockers and an uncensorable app store.
Works with AT&T, & T-Mobile and other leading domestic and international GSM Networks. Just insert your nano-SIM card.
The above.phone is powered by secure hardware and transparent software that protects you from mass surveillance and control.
Out of the box you’ll find a suite of free & open source apps that take care of your every need, without tracking you. Complete your phone with the Above Privacy Suite, a set of software services designed for your phone that protect your internet traffic and communications.
The Light Phone II is an unlocked, 4G LTE mobile phone. Out of the box, the Light Phone II’s core functionality includes calls, messages (and group texting) as well as an alarm and hotspot.
There is a customizable toolbox menu for the phone in which you can add/remove various additional features to your Light Phone II. Currently you can add an alarm, calculator, simple music player, podcasts tool, and Directions . Additional tools are in development and will be released ongoing as they become available. We’re working closely with our early adopters to design these tools.
While considering additional functionality for the Light Phone II, it’s important to remember all of the features it will never have. The Light Phone II will never have social media, internet browsing, email, news, or ads. Our tools are intentional, and there is a clear objective in opening the tool. There will never be an infinite feed. The device itself, with a small black and white screen, reflects this philosophy and inherently limits the phone’s functionality.
The Light Phone II currently only supports an English keyboard/language on the device. You will be able to view incoming messages in a variety of languages and characters. We plan to expand our language support, thanks for understanding.
Just because something is publicly accessible does not mean that people want it to be publicized.
– “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity”
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