GoFOSS
gofoss.netHey Lemmy!
We’ve released gofoss.net, a beginner’s guide to free and open source software, privacy and sustainable tech.
The site is available in English, French and German. We hope that it can help some of you to:
- safely browse the Internet
- encrypt your conversations
- protect your data
- switch to Linux
- free your phone from Google & Apple
- join the Fediverse & use alternative cloud providers
- self-host your stuff
The source code is available on GitLab. Happy to chat, let us know what you think!
For more information, please come find us at gofoss.net :)
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PS: We are 100% non-profit: no ads, no tracking, no sponsored or paywalled content.
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Nice initiative, but I’d suggest to
I’m in the market for a new phone and would very much like to abandon Android.
another honeypot page > tutanota, signal, mozilla
I can’t access the website. Domain not resolved?
Seems like quad9 is blocking our domain. Reached out to report false positive, hope that’ll solve it.
solved
Server-side of both ProtonMail and Tutanota is nonFLOSS.
Thx for the hint, will include a comment on the website. GitLab Issue #105 created.
Oh shit. A modern-designer website fully compatible with UXP-based browsers. I love it.
Found this gem on the site
Super cool. Thanks for sharing.
i can’t reach the website ?
Great initiative - kudos!
thx :)
It nice that they specifically mention why XMPP isn’t included, but they could also have included a specific client (like they basically do with Matrix) and evaluate that. Conversations for example does do e2ee by default when possible.
A client and server combination like Snikket or Movim could have also been evaluated.
You’re right. We’ve pondered this for quite some time, and if you check older commits you’ll even see that we included Conversations at some point. We really like XMPP (and are also a bit nostalgic). In the end, we however decided to favour messengers which provide encryption out of the box, irrespective which client is used, and give XMPP an “honorable mention”. If there is enough interest, or if people contribute, we can still cover the topic in future releases
I think evaluating Snikket could be a good option in the future as it really is a complete package similar to Matrix. It also has e2ee enabled by default when you are communicating between Snikket users.
Movim also has e2ee now and is a complete package with its PWA capable web-client, but OMEMO isn’t enabled by default for now.
Thx for your feedback! Added GitLab Issue #106 and will look into Snikket when possible
privacytools.io
Also privacyguides.org
Yeah there are so many of these they are starting to get a little redundant. I understand why privacyguides was created over privacytools. Let the best website win!
tbh, we don’t see this as a competition. Those guys (and gals) were there WAY before us, and they know their stuff. And there are many more people covering similar topics, too. We’re humble enough to know that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Our feeling is that the subject is complex and fast-paced. With more reliable sources, people have better chances to find whats working best for them.
More sources is always better to increase the reach of these technologies. We need to flood the internet with projects like this to make privacy more mainstream.
This is a great effort! There’s just one thing that I think you really should correct/clarify, In the chapter on firefox:
Firefox doesn’t “block cookies”. The default settings block “cross-site tracking cookies” and “cross-site cookies in private windows”, while the “Strict” setting blocks “Cross-site cookies in all windows”. Cookies themselves are not a privacy concern (and blocking them would break a huge proportion of websites)
Thx for the clarification! Added GitLab Issue #107 and will add a comment on the website
The last thing is true, i block first-party and third-party cookies in Vivaldi
Why do you recommend the non-free Magic Earth here?
Good catch, others mentioned that too. Will be removed
Awesome site! I think it will be very useful for beginners to go through at their own pace and help them understand what each suggestion will won’t do.
thanks! the idea is indeed to make the subject accessible even to non-techies. It’s a challenge, and we can still do better ;)