Privacy

Here we have Nostr - the decentralized social protocol that’s challenging Big Tech’s dominance with censorship-resistant communication and user-controlled data.

While Google dominates the search engine market with over 90% global market share, there’s a growing ecosystem of alternative search engines offering different approaches to web search.

The Tor network has experienced significant fluctuations in its infrastructure over the past decade, with exit relays and bridges showing distinct patterns of growth, decline, and recovery.

The web was originally designed as a decentralized network where anyone could publish and connect. Over time, corporate platforms consolidated control, creating walled gardens where users are products and content is locked in. The Indie Web movement aims to restore the original promise of the web: personal ownership, creative freedom, and genuine connection.

The Gemini protocol represents a return to the fundamentals of internet communication-a lightweight, secure, and privacy-respecting alternative to the increasingly complex modern web.

Here’s a quick info on Write.as / WriteFreely - how it fits into the fediverse, where to get managed hosting, what the usage trend looks like, and how to self-host (plus rough costings).

Online privacy is a hot topic. From targeted ads to silent trackers, many mainstream browsers share more about you than you’d like. Fortunately, several privacy-oriented browsers exist to help you stay safe and anonymous.

Jabber (now commonly referred to as XMPP) is an open-source communication protocol and suite of client applications that enable instant messaging, voice/video calls, conferencing, desktop sharing, and presence features for individuals and organizations.

Mumble is a free and open-source voice over IP (VoIP) application designed primarily for real-time voice communication. It uses a client-server architecture where users connect to a shared server to talk with each other.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of Obsidian as a powerful tool for personal knowledge management (PKM), explaining its architecture, features, strengths, and how it supports modern knowledge workflows.

Let’s have a quick look at Matomo, Plausible, google and other web analytics providers and systems available for self-hosting and compare them.

Dokuwiki is a selfhosted wikipedia which can be hosted easily on premises and not requiring any databases. I was running it dockerised, on my pet kubernetes cluster.

YaCy is a decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) search engine designed to operate without centralized servers, enabling users to create local or global indexes and perform searches by querying distributed peers.

YaCy is a decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) search engine that allows individuals and organizations to run their own search portals or join a global network of search peers.

It works, but the performance, anonimity and reliability are very questionable…