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*Fediversity: Privacy-friendly, sustainable, transparent fair.*
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*Fediversity: Privacy-friendly, sustainable, transparent fair.*
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The Open Internet Discourse Foundation project Fediversity is an effort to bring individuals and institutions easy-to-use, portable digital services with personal freedom at their core.
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The Open Internet Discourse Foundation project Fediversity is an effort to bring individuals and institutions easy-to-use, portable digital services with personal freedom at their core.
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We want to provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use.
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We want to help provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use.
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Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that makes sustainable use of the world.
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Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that makes sustainable use of the world.
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The goal of this project is offer an **alternative to centralised online services and companies that operate closed ecosystems**, thus creating a major impact on the future of the internet, our societies and economies — a unique and meaningful contribution to the *Next Generation Internet* initiative.
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The goal of this project is offer an **alternative to centralised online services and companies that operate closed ecosystems**, thus creating a major impact on the future of the internet, our societies and economies — a unique and meaningful contribution to the *Next Generation Internet* initiative.
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This objective aligns with the work programme topic by advancing the development of alternative digital solutions that are more user-centric and transparent.
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This objective aligns with the work programme topic by advancing the development of alternative digital solutions that are more user-centric and transparent.
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The key technical aspect of Fediversity is to provide the means for easily switching between different hosting providers, or to their own infrastructure, without losing their data.
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This objective is important as it promotes user control and choice, without being locked into a particular platform or service.
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Concretely, we aim to achieve this using the following sub-goals:
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Concretely, we aim to achieve this using the following sub-goals:
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1. Implement a way to run online services emphasising user autonomy and portability;
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1. Implement a way to run online services emphasising user autonomy and data portability;
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1. Disseminate our results by engaging the open-source community to further expand on work in this direction;
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1. Disseminate our results by engaging the open-source community to further expand on work in this direction;
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1. Exploit our work by facilitating the sample use-case of web hosting organisations using an initial set of services.
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1. Exploit our work by enabling reproducible deployments of an initial set of portable applications.
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In addition, the team will have to find ways to ensure that all parts of our services use **open-source software**.
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In addition, the team will have to find ways to ensure that all parts of our services use **open-source software**.
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This will promote transparency and enable end-users to verify that their data is being handled ethically and in compliance with data privacy regulations.
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This will promote transparency and enable end-users to verify that their data is being handled ethically and in compliance with data privacy regulations.
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Use of open-source software also gives users the freedom to use, modify, and distribute the software as they see fit, without restrictions or limitations.
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Use of open-source software also gives users the freedom to use, modify, and distribute the software as they see fit, without restrictions or limitations.
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The proposed services will also be designed to be **fully portable** (something we like to call **'service portability'**).
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This means that users will be able to (easily and fully) switch between different hosting providers (as well as bare metal) without losing their data.
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This objective is important as it promotes user control and choice, allowing users to choose a way of offering services that best meets their needs without being locked into a particular platform or service, and gives users the flexibility between hosted versus self-hosted options.
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### Relevance
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### Relevance
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## Ambition
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## Ambition
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### Portability of services
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### Service portability
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The project plans to offer portability of services, allowing users to easily export their data from the platform and import it to another platform.
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The project plans to offer service portability: allowing users to easily export their data and application state from one hosting provider's environment and import it to another.
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This is a unique feature beyond what is currently available on the market.
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This is a unique feature beyond what is currently available on the market.
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## Identified applications
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## Identified applications
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We have identified a number of applications as potentially relevant targets to offer as part of our project, emphasising the value to users' digital autonomy.
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We have identified a number of applications as potentially relevant targets to offer as part of our project, emphasising the value to users' digital autonomy.
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To structure our efforts, we have categorized them into three waves, as follows:
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To structure our efforts, we have categorized them into three waves, as follows:
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- Low-hanging fruit (courtesty of SelfHostBlocks)
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- Low-hanging fruit (courtesy of SelfHostBlocks)
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- [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/)
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- [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/)
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- [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/)
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- [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/)
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- [Vaultwarden](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)
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- [Vaultwarden](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)
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