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# Fediversity
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## Introduction
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Fediversity is an effort to bring easy-to-use, budget-conscious hosted
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cloud services to individuals and institutions. We belief that digital
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autonomy is of paramount importance for our ability to innovate and
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adapt in a continuously changing world.
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Our digital autonomy has been severely hampered by the dependence on
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multinational 'hi-tech' conglomerates commonly know as Bigtech. Their
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insidious business models and practices have stifled competition, led to
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price gouging in certain markets and concerns about the misuse of
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private data. It even goes as far as influencing elections and
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undermining our democracies.
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We need to free ourselves, our institutions, our companies, our
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societies and our economies from the claws of Bigtech. We need to regain
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our digital autonomy and with it, our ability to innovate and adapt.
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With Fediversity, we want to contribute to this by offering you the
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means to free yourselves from the shackles of Bigtech.
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## Our offer
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Built upon the solid foundations of NixOS we offer blueprints to
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'automagically' create, configure and maintain a set of interoperable
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open-source software application services. Using these blueprints,
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individuals and service provider organisations are able to quickly offer
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a compelling set of alternative services to the more well-known Bigtech
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platform services.
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By virtue of the use of open standards, it is even possible to connect
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our open-source based services with certain Bigtech offerings. Bringing
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you the best of both worlds. It also provides you with the possibility
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for bespoke solid substitutes and a tiered exit strategy to make a
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deliberate decision to move away from Bigtech whenever you want.
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## Fediversity partners & funding
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The Fediversity project consist of four partners: the Open Internet
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Discourse Foundation (OID), NLNet, Nordunet & Tweag. Fediversity is
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funded by the European Commission's Next Generation Internet
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initiative.
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## More information
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Check our website for more detailed information. Here you'll find
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documentation on our technical architecture, requirements and of course
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our work which is freely available under the European Union Public
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Licence. Feel free to contact us using the information below. We look
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forward to hearing from you!
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### Contact
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* Website: [https://fediversity.eu](https://fediversity.eu/)
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* E-mail: [mailto:contact@fediversity](contact@fediversity.eu)
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* Mastodon: [https://mastodon.fediversity.eu/@fediversity](https://mastodon.fediversity.eu/@fediversity)
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