CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). CHATONS is a collective initiated by the association Framasoft in 2016 following the success of its campaign De-google-ify Internet.
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
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De-google-ify Internet - Main Page
The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them
Introducing Chatto
I'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, messy ideas and gossip fly about in real time, get mixed, remixed, discarded, polished before they show up in a prepared fashion in public.
Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
The triumphant return of aimless digital chatter.
Alternatives to
Framasoft is at full capacity, but we are not leaving you: we are part of the collective CHATONS and other members of the network will be delighted to welcome you.
Chatto — Self-hostable team chat
Chatto is a fast, fully-featured chat app for teams and communities who care about owning their data.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Chat
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.
Dock — Team chat that doesn't suck
Team chat without the bloat. Unlimited search, even on free. No AI tax. No feature overload. Built for startups who ship.
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.
Tibo on Twitter / X
Plugin discovery on ChatGPT leads to massive adoption opportunity. Open ecosystems will win. pic.twitter.com/Tl1859D6oU— Tibo (@thsottiaux) September 29, 2026
Humans are social creatures. We crave bonding and social connections. In our digital world, our common social space is a campfire, which is the group chat.
OpenMeet - Your Community, Your Privacy, Your Power
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
