Here is a list of either anti-capitalist, anti-hierarchy, autonomous, feminist, or radical server projects. Some of them are revolutionary collectives which provide free or mutual aid services to radical and grassroots activists. Others are more focused on privacy or on decentralisation. None of them are focused on money. Riseup is not endorsing these projects, but is keeping a list for people to be able to choose! Please read carefully the terms of service of the projects, as some may be subject to law-enforcement or surveillance laws.
Grow Your Own Services 🌱 (@homegrown@social.growyourown.services)
Karrot is a free open source self-hostable platform for organising grassroots community activism. You can find out more at: 🌱 https://codeberg.org/karrot You can follow the project at: 🌱 @karrot@fosstodon.org If you don't want to self-host, there's a public server at: 🌱 https://karrot.world #SelfHosting #Activism #Grassroots #CommunityHosting #FOSS
Minimum viable decentralization – John Backus – Medium
If you want people to use your product, decentralize the bare minimum. Lessons from Freenet, I2P, Darknet markets, and Reddit.
Home - riseup.net
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.
croqaz/awesome-decentralized
🕶 Awesome list of distributed, decentralized, p2p apps and tools 👍
Bonfire
A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.
Bonfire
A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.
co/infra
Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra
+KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism
At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, and cultural processes in the near future. +KAOS is a cut and paste of interviews, like a documentary film transposed on paper. It describes the peculiar relationship between hacktivism and activism, in Italy and beyond, highlighting the importance of maintaining digital infrastructures. While this may not sound as glamorous as sneaking into a server and leaking data, it is a fundamental topic: not even the most emblematic group of hacktivists can operate without the services of radical server collectives. Autistici/Inventati (https://www.autistici.org - https://www.inventati.org)
Blacksky - Open Collective
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
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Artists, raison d'être: Can we re-think tech that works for people, & not just corporations? Can we improve the world our children inherit? Deliberate, discuss, develop. This is DARKSHAPES. We build
Blacksky Algorithms - Open Collective
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
RadicalxChange
We are a community of activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars committed to using mechanism design to inspire radical social change.
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.
Still seeking: - Decentralized direct-messaging (DM) service - Works with atproto identities - E2EE - Self-hostable / FOSS - Permissionless - Frontend-agnostic / plug-n-play - No blockchain Group messaging would be a bonus. We'd be your github sponsor + public champion.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂
Bluesky DMs are a centralized service that they run and haven't open sourced. Germ DMs are similarly centralized. If there's ever a DM service that we can self-host and would be interoperable with (work with) other atproto apps or non-Blacksky accounts, we'll swap out Bluesky's.