Ethical projects

In this section we want to talk to you about the so-called ethical projects. What do we mean by ethical project when the topic is privacy, server, informatics and so on?
They are projects often started by good hackers and which are supported at their own expense thanks to the collective work or with small donations. On this page we will therefore draw up a small list of the projects that we know and that we have already used a few times.

Before we venture out in the world of ethical servers, however, there we recommend taking a look at these sites. They are projects that do not offer servers and/or services but they delve very deeply into all the problems and why it is It's good to worry about your identity and privacy digital. We want to give you valid compromises and solid alternatives to the products, they will be able to explain to you better than us why it is good defend online privacy.

ETHICAL SERVERS

But why use a instead ethical server? The reason is actually very simple. The only total certainty for don't be spied on And profiles when we use any service is that of self-hosting the service itself. What does it mean? It means that we should have a small server at home (often even a simple one is enough Raspberry) and independently install all the services necessary for the mail, The shared notebook, The calendar, The file-Hosting and so on.

Although this is the safest method, it is definitely the most complicated and least manageable by everyone, in fact, if you don't know what we are talking about it is probably much better Don't even try it! This is why these exist ethical servers created and managed by people who, in theory, can be trusted. Because we are always there anyway, apart from very rare cases, you have to trust of someone if you want to leave your things in cloud somewhere and always accessible.

Let's get to the list

List in strict alphabetical order:

• Autistici.org, born in 2001, is one of the first ethical servers still active, read theirs manifest, their policy It's their services;
• Bida, your friendly neighborhood anarchist server! They are Italian and offer various services including a server Mastodon;
• Cisti.org, is a group from Turin, born recently, that offers calendar for events And collaborative pad. They also have a beautiful digital self-defense course;
• Devol, is a Milanese collective, they offer many different services such as Etherpad, one alternative to Google Docs, one alternative to Google Forms and one Instance by Searx. They also have a Instance Italian by writefreely, the alternative to Blogspot, called noblogo. A Instance Italian by Peertube, the alternative to Youtube and very recently the first Instance in Italian by Pixelfed, the alternative to Instagram;
• Disroot.org, is a Dutch group that also offers free (but donate if you want to use it!) services such as e-mail, cloud, XMPP chat and so on;
• Exiles, an Italian community of digital exiles. They also offer many free services available to everyone, including a URL shortener and a server Mumble;
• Framasoft.org, upon your recommendation we add this French association (founded in 2004!) which offers a huge amount of services that can also be viewed in a beautiful map to degoogize;
• Hack Liberty, another free project that offers services for free like Lemmy, Matrix, WriteFreely or Gitea;
• Komun.org, is a really interesting Spanish (?) collaborative project. They offer free services based on Nextcloud And more:
• Monocles, another very interesting service that dedicates its activity to the environment as well as privacy. They offer several services for free and for €4 per month they offer an interesting expansion with 4GB of cloud and 1GB of encrypted emails. They also offer a Search engine Interesting. They also have created a Fork Of Conversation&Blabber for chat and video calls;
• OpenDesktop, according to them ¹ one of the largest websites for the free software community. They offer a Nextcloud suite (up to 5GB), a Mastodon account, a GitLab account and much more with a single account. Thanks for reporting on Telegram;
• EXIT project, an Italian project that offers services such as e-mail and and cloud;
• Project Segfault, this free project operates, among other things, many servers that allow you to use alternative front-ends such as Invidious instead of YouTube, AnonymousOverflow instead of StackOverFlow e GotHub instead of GitHub;
• Riseup.net, offer among other things a VPN;
• Free services for people, a recent all-Italian project that allows you to use various free software for free such as PDF Tools, Cooking recipes, Translators and more;
• Snopyta, a well-known and reliable association that offers many services such as PrivateBin, HedgeDoc, Nitter and many others. They also offer several domain services .onion.

These are certainly the most famous and most used but you can browse here and try all the ethical servers in the world for yourself: https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers

Do you also participate in an ethical project or do you know others that you think we should include in the list? Let us know in the comments and we'll definitely give it a look!

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