A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.
A search engine for the Fediverse.
We follow noindex, noarchive metatag, and robots.txt. These are cached for 30 days. We will not index statuses from authors that have noindex meta tag on their profile page.
Please note that robots.txt isn't a reliable way to prevent your posts from being indexed. This is because if your post is public, it might appear on the federated timeline of instances that federates with your instance.
If you recently changed your preference on indexing and would like to be removed from fedisearch.com immediately, please send a direct message to @fedisearch@qoto.org, using #noindex as the message content. These are processed automatically at 15 minutes interval.
Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations.
The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay.
High performance, low latency, you can even run it on a RasPi (and many busy Pleroma instances are!)
Written in Elixir and Phoenix, with Postgres as its back-end.
Source code: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/
Movim is a decentralized social platform, written in PHP and HTML5 and based on XMPP. Database backend for caching. Seems suited for not-shared hosting because php-fpm is recommended, as well as Websockets and a long-running daemon (which shared hosting providers like Dreamhost don't like and kill automatically). Seems to require experienced webapp admins because knowledge of the application architecture is required.
Requires that the server support XEP-0060 (pubsub) because message transfer is built on top of it.
Keyoxide allows you to link accounts on various online services and platforms together, prove they belong to you and establish an online identity. This puts you, the internet citizen, in charge when it comes to defining who you are on the internet instead of large corporations.
Seems a lot like Keybase.
Source code: https://codeberg.org/keyoxide/web
Seems like it's written in PHP. Could be a lot worse.
A repository for monitoring attack vectors mentioned in the billion-dollar disinformation campaign to reelect the president in 2020. Includes some Python code for analyzing the data.
Twint is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter's API.
Twint utilizes Twitter's search operators to let you scrape Tweets from specific users, scrape Tweets relating to certain topics, hashtags & trends, or sort out sensitive information from Tweets like e-mail and phone numbers. I find this very useful, and you can get really creative with it too.
Twint also makes special queries to Twitter allowing you to also scrape a Twitter user's followers, Tweets a user has liked, and who they follow without any authentication, API, Selenium, or browser emulation.
Does not require you to have a Twitter account.
A curated list of amazingly awesome open source intelligence tools and resources. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources. In the intelligence community (IC), the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources)
The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from several jurisdictions across the United States.
We present these posts and comments because we believe that they could undermine public trust and confidence in our police. In our view, people who are subject to decisions made by law enforcement may fairly question whether these online statements about race, religion, ethnicity and the acceptability of violent policing—among other topics—inform officers’ on-the-job behaviors and choices.
To be clear, our concern is not whether these posts and comments are protected by the First Amendment. Rather, we believe that because fairness, equal treatment, and integrity are essential to the legitimacy of policing, these posts and comments should be part of a national dialogue about police.
An ultra-slim microblogging package for hackers. CLI or bust. Open system - uses text files in public places, so there. Tracks the directories of twtxt users and aggregates them into a timeline. Written in Python3. Integrates with the usual shell environments. Simple enough that people have written their own implementations.
Distinct from jointwt/twtxt! Do not delete this bookmark!
Maybe it can be repurposed as a message bus for stuff?
A Mastodon instance for Homestuck.
In this post, we’ll be looking at how we can use a deep learning model to train a chatbot on my past social media conversations in hope of getting the chatbot to respond to messages the way that I would.
Ethical and privacy-conscious alternatives for websites and apps.
Another search engine for stalking^Wtracking down people on the Net. Interesting in that it also indexes the deep web (i.e., much of the dynamic content that a lot of search engines don't or can't reach). Includes such sources as ICQ, the US SEC, Amazon, and LexisNexis. Tends to chain searches out to Google. Offers specific links to pay-for-play background research websites. Interestingly, returns results from online petitions, both public and private.
A very large and periodically updated directory of cyberpunk related resources on the Net. You'll find forums, discussion threads, websites, music, projects, blogs, and more.
F/OSS software that implements invitation-only discussion groups for journalists and activists to communicate. Interestingly, it is designed to make use of whatever networking methods are available to it. It's possible to export messages to bundles transported on removable media (ala QWK Mail) to synch Briar instances (albeit with considerable latency).
HybridAuth is a library for web apps which implements social sign-ins (meaning, you authenticate with an existing social network account (like Twitter or Facebook)) rather than applying for an account with an e-mail address. Lets the user import established profiles and contact lists from the socnet account they logged in with. Also has a library of plugins for existing frameworks and applications, from Drupal to Concrete to Wordpress. Written in PHP so that it'll run on just about every webhost out there out of the box.
How matrix algebra can be used on a table of names and membership checkmarks to develop a detailed social connection network.
A website which allows you to pick one or more online services to delete yourself from. Also flags which services you can't delete yourself from (scroll all the way down to the bottom).
Open source, Github repo here: http://github.com/rmlewisuk/justdelete.me
A python module for abstracting various federated socnet protocols into a single API. Meant to make it easy to hook your own code into social networking software using the federation network protocol instead of the client integration API. Implements part of Diaspora right now.