:/ Thanks for the report !

Like every VPN company that operate their own entry nodes…

Did you tried NymVPN ? I am curious if you can enter their mixnet from within China as they strongly advertise their product as censorship-resistant tech for freedom and activists.

NYM is a next-generation mixnet with a VPN product built on top of it. Obscura is a VPN that provide a first hop then send traffic to a Mullvad hop.

I agree on this with the exception of PIA.

• Marketing is BS like most VPN
• Company is based in the USA
• They do analytics
• You cannot register “anonymously”

It’s not the worst VPN you could choose but there is better options.

Well, with Kiwix I was able to download the whole english wikipedia with mid-res pictures on my 128GB USB Drive. I think the 600TB you’re talking about includes videos and high-res pictures.

Hosting a wiki isn’t that expensive it’s basically texts and some lightweight pictures. The whole english wikipedia is around 109GB of data.

If you don’t feel confortable with CLI tools their is graphical front-ends for yt-dlp such as Open Video Downloader or stacher but using yt-dlp is always better

Zulip or Mattermost if you want basically a free (as in freedom) and open source alternative to Teams and slack But as you mention self-hosting isn’t really an option it can become expensive.

Maybe a mix of Signal and Jitsi Meet (there is several public free instances) if you want a good balance between privacy, price and efficiency

Maybe look at the kSuite from Infomaniak it’s not the best but might be a good balance too for your team.

I think you are looking for one of these

• NotesNook (best free tier in my opinion)
• logseq (like an open source obsidian)
• Joplin (cloud is paid but you can selfhost)
• Standard Notes (only support plain text on free tier)

I second this, there is several associations or comapnies that are running Jitsi Meet instances so you could have more proximity with the servers or more trust if it’s a non-profit association you’re part of for exemple.

It’s quite new so maybe not as feature-packed but it might worth to bet on them cuz their app does looks great I agree!

Yeah the source code for generative.fm is available here

• Noice Androiid and WebApp
• Blanket GNU/Linux Flatpak
• Generative.fm Online and Docker
• EasyNoise Android

Probably Paralino

Paralino is based in Germany. It’s an end-to-end encrypted geolocation sharing app that is quite new. They said they will open source their code further in their roadmap. It’s available on both iOS and Android!

Especially geolocation data…

Algorithmes aren’t inherently bad. The fact that they are opaque blackbox imposed to you by the plateforms so you get addicted is why they are bad. The day we have the choice between multiple client-side transparent algos it will be better.

You simply don’t get the usecase. I don’t want Pinterest to show me stuff that I’m into. I want it to show me similar pictures to build coherant yet creative moodboards.

I’ll go with Mafia II yes