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notes: make it navigable, invite people to make additions, but do it with more intention and framing: what is the tool for, why is it better? is it green? under what cateegor yto put it?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(#resistant-infra)
# RESISTANT INFRA
**These apps and platforms are listed here because they might be alternatives to services provided by companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine. Often they are more secure, many of them also make a difference to the logics of hyperscaling, data extraction and everything-as-a-service of The Cloud, by proposing collective modes of maintenance, hosting and software licensing. Some are "green" as described here**: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/. List updated from Digital Solidarity Networks: *"This is the start of a listing of resources regarding mutual aid strategies, propositions for future setups and social closeness through 'alternative' digital infrastructures. This pad contains examples of collective digital reparative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.), a.k.a. GMAFIAZ. Other attitudes are possible!* https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/publish/digital-solidarity-networks.raw.html
Please feel free to add to this is over-growing list, but please do so with intention, such that this document remains usable and navigable.
For your entry, add the following information:
- Entry title
- URL of the entry
- Purpose of addition
Hosted counter-cloud software, ready to use
- Multi-service
- Lurk (small scale) - https://lurk.org/
- discussion lists, xmpp chat, microblogging, wiki, mastodon
- Framasoft (medium scale) - https://framasoft.fr/en/
- pads, forms, agenda, slides, chat, video-calling, maps, microblogging, notes, mindmaps, calculators, etc.
- Chatons - distributed Framasoft - https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ The Chatons network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft, but distributed over the different Chatons servers. Every time you load this page, other servers are proposed.
- Riseup - https://riseup.net/
- email, chat, VPN, mailing lists, etherpads
- Autistici/Inventati - https://www.autistici.org/ -- you can read about the backgrounds of the project in a nice publication made in the 20-year occasion:
- https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/kaos.pdf
- Email, xmpp, noblogs, vpn, jitsi
- Systemli https://www.systemli.org/
- xmpp chat, email, etherpad, web hosting, ticker
- disroot - https://www.disroot.org/
- xmpp, jitsi, etherpad, taiga, email, diaspora, nextcloud
- Aktivix https://aktivix.org
- Video chat
- Jitsi "One of the most important Jitsi features is privacy. Jitsi uses hop-by-hop encryption to protect your video conference. Hop-by-hop encryption means each stage of the video call is encrypted in part. Your video call to the server carries encryption. The server decrypts the video call, then re-encrypts it and forwards it to the video participants. Hop-by-hop encryption isn't perfect, by any means. It means that the server owner could eavesdrop on your conversation if they wish. The way around this is to host a Jitsi Meet server for total privacy. Of course, that isn't possible for everyone. However, there are no indications that Jitsi's owners, 8x8, are eavesdropping on private video conversations."
- Big Blue button "to provide communications privacy for datagram protocols the media packets are encrypted using the Secure Real-Time Protocol" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Real-time_Transport_Protocol
- Chatb https://chatb.org - by people behind hostb.org, source code: https://r-w-x.org/r/chatb
- Audio chat
- Text chat
- IRC
- Matrix >> problematic to say the least, I would remove it from the list or make a second list of not to use ^^..
- In the middle of the ongoing war with the Hamas terror group, Israeli information technology provider Matrix IT Ltd. is looking to hire 700 people. The Herzliya-based company is looking to fill vacancies in a number of tech-related areas including digital solutions, big data, machine learning, cloud software, IoT, cybertechnology, and augmented reality.
- “During these days many organizations are looking for technological solutions to the challenges created as a result of the national emergency and the fighting [with the Hamas terror group], that can help in a variety of areas such as: business continuity, information security and data protection, backup and recovery from disaster, cloud solutions, data, and digital transformation,” said Hila Tal, vice president of human resources at Matrix IT. “Matrix is also involved and integrated in projects in the field of cyber and in the field of security and defense, areas in which there is greater demand for experts.”
- >> https://samba.noblogs.org/matrix-org-a-federated-app-funded-by-a-mossad-company/
- Collaborative writing
- Automated translation
- Collaborative Drawing
- Collaborative music
Alternative social networks
Activist organising
- Social media
- Event organising software
- Collective decision making and discussion
- Collective finances
- Decision making tools
- Petition tools
Counter-cloud apps, needs installation or hosting
Related lists
OTHER INFRA-RESISTANCE RESOURCES
Big Tech Military tech
Boycott Big Tech
Counter Cloud Action
Some examples of repressive social media