Privacy

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…