Project "De-google-ify
Internet" aims at offering
as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our
digital freedoms. Google is not the only player there, even though it
gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype,
Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many
others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized
and make users dependent.
Framasoft are resisting this trend. They have come up with a several
year roadmap to set up alternative services. These services are
thought of as digital commons. They are free, gratis, and open to
all. Framasoft is a French not-for-profit whose goal is to
decentralize the Internet by promoting self-hosting. They work to
empower everyone to install and run their own services. The project
already offers more than 15 alternative services and welcomes about
1,000,000 visits per month.