I had a french feeling when I read the word "association". I confirmed it originates from France when I checked their "about" tab. I like their idea but I hate it when the front page is in english as if this is a world wide effort but the rest of the web site is in French. Je vous souhaite la meilleure continuation mais je vais passer.
De-Google-Ify Internet
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#32Only way to keep an "open" internet is to make our decision makers make open standards law. It's not perfect but it force the companies to open up their closed gardens.
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#33I'm curious how Framasoft will keep the lights on and the servers running without ads/data-collection.
They are funded via donations: https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a common spelling mistake for people from a French background.
Fair enough. It's a common mistake for people from an English background, too, but these days we have tools to eliminate typos like that.
He meant independence is spelled indépendance in French. Close enough to overlook the differences. I agree the writing is awkward and they would benefit from some proofing
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#35Each proposed "free alternative" looks like it comes from the site owner, FramaSoft (example: Google Forms -> FramaForms, Google Maps -> Framacarte). While I appreciate the efforts to de-centralize the internet, this is more an ad for the company than anything.
The free alternative (without quote, they really are free) are mostly other free software with a FramaSoft branding, in order to make it look like a coherent offering rivaling Google suite. If you go in the documentation of each software, you will see what project it comes from. For example, Framabag is Wallabag, Framanotes is Turtl, Framapad is Etherpad, etc...
It's not a rebranding; they're online services based on those projects and hosted by FramaSoft. It's more like WPEngine or Kinsta, which host WordPress for you (except these are free and managed by a non-profit association).
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#36https://degooglisons-internet.org/img/Peha-Banquet-CC-By-192... This is not what I want the Internet to be.
At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS). Instead of roasting big companies (because... privacy?) we should work together. This picture does more harm, because it view companies purely as enemies.
Open source is NOT free software. You are not free because you are using Chromium instead of Chrome.
Free software is a philosophy, Open source just mean every one can read the source.
You can contribute to Open Source and be evil...
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#37What is the best single term description for software like this? Self Hosting (It was already a term for an unrelated thing) Control Panel (its more than a control panel) Full Stack Automation (that is what I thought of calling it) personal cloud (What does personal mean) personal infrastructure (that does sound intimidating) community computer (a small server that only serves a particular community or small business…
There are a lot if ones it should not be (self hosted infrasTructure) but ones it could be: private cloud stack, private cloud infrastructure, self hosted SaaS, hosted SaaS.
I'm eager to see other answers, too.
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#38What is the best single term description for software like this? Self Hosting (It was already a term for an unrelated thing) Control Panel (its more than a control panel) Full Stack Automation (that is what I thought of calling it) personal cloud (What does personal mean) personal infrastructure (that does sound intimidating) community computer (a small server that only serves a particular community or small business…
I'd say decentralized fits the bill quite nicely.
EDIT: Decentralized as in "Decentralized Service" or something along that line.
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#39Re: De-Google-Ify Internet
#40Each proposed "free alternative" looks like it comes from the site owner, FramaSoft (example: Google Forms -> FramaForms, Google Maps -> Framacarte). While I appreciate the efforts to de-centralize the internet, this is more an ad for the company than anything.
In all fairness, not each alternative: there's often other non-Frama alternatives as well and there are entries without any FramaSoft altermnative at all.