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*Fediversity: Privacy-friendly, sustainable, transparent fair.* *Fediversity: Privacy-friendly, sustainable, transparent fair.*
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. 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.
We want to provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use. We want to help provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use.
Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that makes sustainable use of the world. Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that makes sustainable use of the world.
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. 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.
This objective aligns with the work programme topic by advancing the development of alternative digital solutions that are more user-centric and transparent. This objective aligns with the work programme topic by advancing the development of alternative digital solutions that are more user-centric and transparent.
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.
This objective is important as it promotes user control and choice, without being locked into a particular platform or service.
Concretely, we aim to achieve this using the following sub-goals: Concretely, we aim to achieve this using the following sub-goals:
1. Implement a way to run online services emphasising user autonomy and portability; 1. Implement a way to run online services emphasising user autonomy and portability;
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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. This will promote transparency and enable end-users to verify that their data is being handled ethically and in compliance with data privacy regulations.
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. 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.
The proposed services will also be designed to be **fully portable** (something we like to call **'service portability'**).
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.
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.
### Relevance ### Relevance
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## Ambition ## Ambition
### Portability of services ### Service portability
The project plans to offer portability of services, allowing users to easily export their data from the platform and import it to another platform. 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.
This is a unique feature beyond what is currently available on the market. This is a unique feature beyond what is currently available on the market.
## Identified applications ## Identified applications