Between 2014 and 2019, we have made almost 40 online services available to users with the De-google-ify Internet campaign. In 2019, we have decided to close or restrict some of these services. The recommendations proposed may be outdated (or even at odds with our current thinking). **To find free alternatives, go to @:(html.libre) (in french only).**
An initiative of the @:meta.F network for a<br /><a href="#leds">Free</a>, <a href="#leds" >Decentralized</a>, <a href="#leds">Ethical</a> Internet built on <a href="#leds">Solidarity</a>
Between 2014 and 2019, we have made almost 40 online services available to users with the De-google-ify Internet campaign. In 2019, we have decided to close or restrict some of these services to avoid depleting our scarce resources and to encourage the use of small local hosts ([all the info here](https://framablog.org/2019/09/26/lets-de-frama-tify-the-internet/)).<br /> **You can find similar services at [CHATONS](https://chatons.org) or at [alt.framasoft.org](https://alt.framasoft.org).**
The year is 2016 AD. The whole web is occupied by centralized services… Well… not entirely. One small village of indomitable Free Software lovers still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Closedum, Centralizum, Trackum, and Proprietarum.
In addition to @:meta.F, the non-profit association leading the campaign described here, we may also mention <a href="http://april.org">l’April</a>, <a href="http://laquadrature.net">la Quadrature du Net</a> or <a href="http://aful.org">l’Aful</a>. These organizations can only keep going with the help of your donations, so don’t forget to support them!
Online services are often closed-source: once you start using them, it is very difficult to leave, because these companies do everything to keep you captive by preventing you, for example, from migrating your data elsewhere.
Using open source services means making sure that you will never be controlled by a particular website, but also that you can always migrate your data elsewhere.
