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.
Create an email group, that’s an unique email address which will distribute emails to all of the addresses in the group (alternative to Google Groups).
Create an email group, that’s an unique email address which will distribute emails to all of the addresses in the group (alternative to Google Groups).
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.
