With censorship increasing on many other sites, you may need this list. You have permission to download and save the page locally.
UPDATED: List of sites for alt social media, communications apps, ways to store images, files, PDFs, text blocks, along with decentralized and censorship-resistant social media has been updated, host videos, stream video, video conferencing. Includes list of encrypted and decentralized messaging apps, some require internet, some do not and are Peer-to-peer. NEW: includes video conferencing and video live stream sites. Check the Table of Contents. There's a whole section just for alt social media. http://wordsalad.info/storesharing.html
This Tiny.cc URL will have the latest page if the above URL is censored. http://tiny.cc/storeshare
#censorship #images #videos
DO NOT USE headers ending with a period. It will mess up the link to that section.
1 Notes
* ($) means it's a pay service but might have a free option.
1.1 Permissions
Permission is granted for anyone to store this file offline as long
as the file remains unchanged. This shortlink should contain the latest
location of the file: http://tiny.cc/storeshare
Privacy Tools.https://www.privacytools.io/. Discusses privacy issues,
laws among nations requesting SSL and encryption keys from ISPs and
other providers, and lists non-US VPN services with pricing. It also has
tools to get your browser ID, test if your browser has WebRTC IP leak,
privacy email providers, etc. Detailed list of Forefox about:config
tweaks and their values.
Assbach. An online site to encrypt or decrypt text.
Type or paste text in the box, and your key in another box, click
Encrypt and the text changes to encrypted text. https://assbach.com/tools/encrypt
Subscribestar. https://www.subscribestar.com/ Like Patreon. Will not
cancel your account based on political beliefs unless your political
beliefs include violence.
Venmo. "Venmo allows you to pay and request money from your friends.
At its core, Venmo provides a social way to pay your friends when you
owe them money and don't want to deal with cash." https://venmo.comOwned by Paypal now, known for cancelling
conservative accounts and keeping the money.
Plumfund. https://plumfund.com. Since 2006. Service has no fees
except when you donate with a credit card.
6 Low-cost web host
Note that if the hosting is free, they probably require ads on all
your pages. Some pay sites might require a multi-year purchase to get
the best rates.
000WebHost.com. http://000WebHost.com. Datacenters in US, UK,
Netherlands, Lithuania, Singapore, Brazil, Indonesia. This site rejects
protonmail.com email accounts, so you cannot register with a Protonmail
account. Plans:
Free, Bandwidth 10GB/month, support via forum/knowledgebase, offline
2 hours every month, mysql 1, email accounts; 1, easy website builder,
FTP: 1 account
$2.89/mo, bandwidth unlimited, disk space 20GB, websites: unlimited,
mysql unlimited, free domain registration, email accounts: unlimited,
easy website builder, FTP: unlimited accounts
50megs.com. https://50megs.com. FREE plan: 50MB disk space, ads on
the site. Starter package: $5.95/month, no ads, 1 GB disk space,
FTP.
$5.92/mo when you pay $142 for 2 years. Dashboard, vague description
of plan. Popout chat for support. Upload your own HTML file, no limit on
bandwidth or disk space. Has built-in daily graph hit counter.
There is a free email list called Mailman but no way to download and
backup all email addresses. A newer version of Mailman should fix
this.
2023 the uploaded file size limit is 500MB, per tech support.
Google. http://sites.google.com. CAUTION: censorship! Has
analytics. Has web page creator. Bad, HTML files are served as a Google
Doc and TOC links are not clickable. All edits to pages must be done
online and through their editor, i.e. you cannot upload your own HTML
files.
Hostgater. https://www.hostgator.com/web-hosting Asterisk on prices
is not explained. Very fishy. Unlimited subdomains, unlimited bandwidth,
FTP accounts, email accounts. Free SSL certification. Website stats.
Cron jobs. POP3 email accounts with SMTP, unlimited autoresponders.
Hostinger. http://hostinger.com $.99/mo. Since 2004. 100GB
bandwidth. Only if you pay for 4 years, then price goes to $7.99/month.
Based in Lithuania.
Infinityfree. http://InfinityFree.net . Support via forum. Custom
error pages. Cron jobs. IP blocker, SSL/TLS. Daily hit graph under
"Account Statistics". Supports PHP. 10mb files not supported!
Free account: Has ads, Unlimited bandwidth and disk space, support
via forum/knowledgebase, max websites 400, max email accounts 10, free
Cloudflare CDN (Caution: Censorship by Cloudflare). No streaming
allowed.
Interserver.net. https://www.interserver.net/webhosting/?id=387890&sid=ha9949960410419866.
Possible apps: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Prestashop, Magento, Mambo.
Free Interinsurance cleans up hacked accounts. $1.99 domain
registration. Unlimited email accounts, disk space, bandwidth. Webmail
access. Really bad chat support, gives vague answers. Hours of support:
$4/mo paid at $54/yr. Unlimited email accounts, global content
caching, Sitepad website builder,
Normal $14.99/month. You probably have to prepay for at least a
year. 1 Website, 10 GB Web Space, ~ 10,000 Visits Monthly, Unmetered
Traffic, Free SSL, Daily Backup, Free CDN, Free Email, Managed
WordPress, Unlimited Databases, 100% renewable energy match, 30-Days
Money-Back,
Pancake.io. Sync your website from a Dropbox
folder, supports Git integration so you can use 'git push' to publish a
site?. Features: Free subdomain, supports popular generators, SSL,
supports custom domains. $5usd/month, 14 day free trial. https://pancake.io
Wix.http://wix.com. Page is way too wide, will not shrink to
browser width. Weekly backups, cron jobs.
$13/mo. 2GB bandwidth, 3GB storage, need your own domain, no ads, 30
video minutes, free domain for 1 year.
Codedump.https://ronsoros.github.io/. Share code instantly, like
a torrent but browser based. Share any type of text file. Formerly
Sharecode. Via my test it held and retrieved 1 million bytes with no
problem.
Dropbox.http://dropbox.com. You need to install software for
Windows to use this. There are free (5GB storage) and paid options.
File.io.http://file.io. When file is downloaded, it is deleted.
You can also set an expiration on the file even if it isn't downloaded.
You can also use this from the unix command line. Woo! All files are
encrypted. Anonymous service, log files do not contain any identifying
info. File size limit is 100MB for free version. Support@file.io.
Files.fm. Freemium file storage service. https://files.fm/. Account
optional? Free account: Store up to 15GB. File size limit is 2GB.
Ad-supported downloads. Files available for 60 days only.
Upload one or more files, each up to 5GB in size.
Click "Upload files" button.
You will get a screen where you can enter email addresses to send a
link to the file. Enter emails and click "Save and Send a Link".
Also uses P2P to share files.
PRO account is $48/year paid annually. Storage from 250GB to 500TB,
max 10GB file size. Unlimited folders.
Furk.net ($). http://furk.net. Secure media file storage, only video
and audio files supported but you can store them and stream them from
this site. Store and stream media files for free. Stream limit 250gb per
month. Requires account. Free trial available only for users with
invites, vouchers or Facebook users.
Free trial: only for users with invites or vouchers or Facebook
users.
Storage is unlimited.
6 months: E57, download 180GB/month
12 months: E114, download 200GB/month
Paying by credit card may incur additional 2-5% fee.
Gofile.io.http://gofile.io. Any size file, account not needed,
files are deleted if they are "inactive" for 10 days. ("An upload is
considered inactive if it is not regularly downloaded by different
IPs.") File xfers are encrypted, no note on encrypting the files in
storage themselves. When you upload a file it will give you a link to
view the file and a different link to edit the file. This is in BETA.
Contact page: https://gofile.io/contact $5usd/month will make your
files permanent.
Google.http://drive.google.com. CAUTION! Known for heavy
censorship, deleting files and accounts without warning.
Hashbase.($) Requires account. Hashbase is a public
peer (P2P) for files published with the Dat protocol. We keep your files
online while your computer is off. Free plan gives you 100mb of storage.
10GB costs $7/month. It also supports: https, DNS short names, archive
history backup. http://hashbase.io
WARNING: Works with DAT project, which works with "marginalized
communities". Very high liklihood of racism and censorship.
Litterbox. Supports many file types, not just text
files. Some executable file types are not allowed. You MUST set a file
expiration of: 1 hour, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days. no other expiration
options are available. Single files up to 200MB are allowed. https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
Mediafire.http://mediafire.com. Has an account. Up to 10GB storage
for free, file size limited to 4GB each file. Unlimited bandwidth. Easy
file sharing with a link. Or use a One-Time link to share the file once.
It also supports: bulk download (download a whole folder), upload from
any website, no ads, made in Texas.
MEGA. (Recommended for privacy and non-censorship.)
http://mega.nz. Encrypted
end-to-end file storage, not even Mega knows what's in your files. For
larger files (over 2GB?) you will have to use the Mega app because
Firefox and other browsers do not have access to enough memory to
decrypt the files. CONS: when you edit or upload a new version of a file
a new Mega link must be generated to shre, which means the old link
still points to an old file.
Also has one to one chat for sharing URLS, or other info.
Onedrive.http://onedrive.com Microsoft's free storage service.
It's installed by default on Windows 10.
Owncloud.http://owncloud.org. Mobile and desktop syncing, pay
service?, end to end encryption, EU-GDPR compliant.
Pcloud.http://transfer.pcloud.com Transfer files up to 5GB each
for free. When file is downloaded once it is deleted. No account needed.
You can also encrypt the files.
Shareboard.http://shareboard.in. Internet file sharing via P2P.
Their software is required and supports: Windows, Android, Mac OSX.
Iphone support coming soon. Features: No file type restriction, no file
size restriction, back up your phone data to here, pause and resume
download if wifi is lost. Based in India?
Sharex. Save files, even text files, screenshots,
record video, screen cast, and more. For Windows only. Supports multiple
monitors. Has basic image manipulation like blurs, arrows, etc. Upload
an image to multiple sites automatically. It's open source. https://getsharex.com/
Storewise.tech.($) https://storewise.tech/.
Pay only, different tiers of storage space, some usage limits. Use their
sliders on the Managed Cloud option to see monthly pricing: https://storewise.tech/pricing/managed-cloud Prices
start at $10/month for 1TB storage 1TB egress (data transfer per
month).
7.1 Direct file sharing
DC++. Aka "direct connect". It's like IRC chat, but
you share files. Anonymous, no registration required. "Direct Connect
allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or
limits. The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice,
easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and it
is easy and convenient to use functionality like multi-hub connections,
auto-connections and resuming of downloads." https://dcplusplus.sourceforge.io/. Help forum: https://answers.launchpad.net/dcplusplus
NOTE: This can be difficult to get working if you have a dynamic IP
address from your ISP. Most home internet packages use a dynamic
IP.
This can also be difficult to get working if you use a VPN.
Each hub has multiple users you connect to. Double click on the hub
to open it. Then once in the hub, double click on the username to see
their files. Many hubs require registration before you can even see a
user's files.
7.2 Torrent-based text file
sharing
You can share a file via your web browser and using P2P built into
the service. Generally you must leave the seeding web page open for
others to download the file. These should not require torrent client
software, your browser becomes the torrent client.
File.pizza.http://file.pizza. Free P2P file sharing via web
torrents. More webtorrent sites here: https://webtorrent.io/faq. Chrome has problems
supporting files > 500MB, Firefox seems to work with larger files. No
account required. File is only shared for download while creator's
browser page is open. When browser tab is closed your file is no longer
available to others.
Instant. Share files via webtorrents (P2P) via http://instant.io. Your file
probably disappears once you close the web browser tab you seeded it
with.
Webtorrent. Web-based torrents via the browser.
Security and anonymity unknown. What this means is to share a file your
computer must be on 24/7 unless you use a hosting service like Hashbase
https://hashbase.io. https://webtorrent.io/faq
7.3 Storing text, readme files,
documentation
0bin. https://0bin.net/. "A client side encrypted PasteBin.
All pastes are AES256 encrypted, we cannot know what you paste."
Expiration days options: Delete after reading once, delete after 1 day,
delete after 1 month, never delete. Include a file title for search
engines to find. Add a BTC address for a tip. You cannot edit files
after creation.
Bookdown. https://bookdown.org/. This can only publish content
from a Github repository, and you can only login using a Google account.
The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates
writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Features
include: Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown
documents. A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write
elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and
citations. Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB,
and Word. It is free for you to publish the static output files of your
book, and you hold the full copyright of your own books.
Coderpad.io ($). http://coderpad.io. A pay service which helps you test
technical coding skills of job applicants.
Cryptbin.http://cryptbin.com. Syntax highlighting for 70
languages and Markdown, emoji, and more. Pastes also allow image
attachments. Allows user account. Set pastes to
self-destruct the first time it's opened, or after N minutes,
hours or days. Has free account.
Dillinger.io.http://dillinger.io. Save files on: Dropbox, Bitbucket,
Github, Medium, Google drive, Microsoft One Drive. Import HTML file and
it gets converted to Markdown, so you can edit the Markdown. Drag and
drop images (requires your Dropbox account be linked). Import and save
files from GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive. Drag and drop
markdown and HTML files into Dillinger. Export documents as Markdown,
HTML and PDF. Dillinger does not do image captions at all.
Docdroid. Has free option, create up to 10
documents per day, requires an account. FREE OPTION: Max 3 documents per
day can be uploaded, docs not viewed in 60 days will be deleted, there
are ads. https://www.docdroid.net/pricing
Edocr by Accusoft. Publish documents, track SEO.
You can upload and even sell documents. K,nights Temp.lar are here. https://www.edocr.com/
Free account is fairly limited. Documents can only be uploaded to here,
not edited here. Free account is for full public view of docs only.
Gist.https://gist.github.com. Github's version of Pastebin.
All pastes are repositories so they are forkable and versioned. Requires
username. Markdown supported. Images supported? Yes but image captions
are not supported. Window cannot be made too small, there's a minimum
width for the window.
Hashify me. Type in markdown, and make a short link
for the file. https://hashify.me. Rewraps all lines in a paragraphs.
Anyone can edit the file if they have the link. Live preview as you
type. This supports images from URLs too. Also does character count of
markdown file. Font in preview window is pretty big so this would work
for mobile applications.
IP.fi.http://p.ip.fi/. Copy link from browser address bar, but
no user accounts, so you can't find your pastes if you lose the link.
You cannot edit pastes once they are created.
Itty.Bitty.site. Store very small files in the URL
itself. Total length of URL (and thus the file) limited to 2000
characters, which should work in most browsers. https://itty.bitty.site/edit. Fun concept for very small
sites or short messages.
Justpaste.it. Has account. Not tested yet. You can
include one photo. Custom name for the paste is possible. No account
Options: set to private or public access, set a Captcha, set date of
expiration, can expire after reading once. Registered account has more
options. It also supports PDF files. http://justpaste.it
Markdown editor. Saves to local files only. No TOC.
Preview on right side, it does wrap content from previous line though.
http://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/. Allows images
from an URL, supports bold, italic, bulleted lists, headers. You can
toggle from edit mode to reading mode. Formatting is on the fly. It can
save documents in your browser somewhere (experimental). You can also
download docs. Has spell check.
Pastefs.com.http://pastefs.com. Has a login or use it anonymously.
Anonymous content cannot be edited once it's published. No expiration
dates you can set. You can also drag and drop a file into this
site.
Privatebin.https://privatebin.net/. Once created, files cannot be
edited. Supports Markdown, plain text, Source code. Can expire paste
after N days. Expire options: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day.
Files cannot be permanent, they are temporary only. You can also discuss
pastes. Options for burn (delete) after reading once, and open
discussion of the file.
Readthedocs. FREE. Whenever you push code to your
favorite version control system, whether that is Git, Mercurial, Bazaar,
or Subversion, we will automatically build your docs so your code and
documentation are never out of sync. Of course we build and host your
docs for the web, but they are also viewable as PDFs, as single page
HTML, and for eReaders. No additional configuration is required. We can
host and build multiple versions of your docs so having a 1.0 version of
your docs and a 2.0 version of your docs is as easy as having a separate
branch or tag in your version control system. You must import docs from
a project's source code, there is no way to enter docs manually. https://readthedocs.org/.
Snipplr.http://snipplr.com/. Mostly for code snippets. Has free
account which can (I presume) list all your pastes. All Snippets on the
site are listed by language, including PHP, CSS, Javascript, HTML,
more.
Support tools.https://privatebin.support-tools.com/ Supports text and
images. If you drag an image to the screen it will not tell you it
received it. Then click Send button to generate unique link.
Taskade. Supports some basic markdown, but the
purpose here is to make a bulleted TODO list with a checkbox to the left
of each bullet. When the checkbox is checked, the item's font uses
strikethrough. Supports bold, italic, underline, highlight. http://taskade.com
Zerobin. Plain text files only. Once they are
created you cannot edit the files. Files can be set to expire, and files
support discussion. You can also clone files. https://sebsauvage.net/paste/ It says "This is a test
service." It might disappear at any time. Expiration options: 5 minutes,
10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 months, 1 year, never. Other
options: delete after reading once, open discussion, syntax
coloring.
Friendpaste.http://friendpaste.com/. It's an open-source code review
system where people can add comments on each line. One of the very old
pasting service that has clean an intuitive user interface, choice of
color scheme for source code, selection of preferred language,
possibility to edit pastes, support for a large number of syntaxes,
persistent pastes, difference between paste, instant reviews and more.
No way to expire pastes, but you can edit them. This also saves
older revisions but max revisions saved is unknown. Contact: http://twitter.com/friendpaste (This site has been
hacked.)
Lbry.tv. You can upload a text file here and the
thumbnail is optiona. Add tags to each file too. You will need to
register for a free account. Files are stored on a blockchain so it can
take 10 minutes to confirm your file is stored on the blockchain, just
be patient. URL seems to work with tiny.cc. https://lbry.tv
Mar 4, 2021. Text files now appear to be limited to 80 lines.
Mega.nz. You can upload text files here, but
editing them can be a problem if you have created and shared a link to
them. The edited file will have a new link. https://mega.nz
Noteself.https://noteself.github.io/. Like an online Tiddlywiki,
looks just like Tiddlywiki, you can use it online or download it
offline. Similar to Evernote. ONLINE: Seems to work fine with autosave
and no PouchDB setup. Without PouchDB setup you will not get autosync.
No markdown available by default. Based on Tiddlywiki 5.1.21. I don't
think anyone can see this but the person who made it, this means you
cannot share the information. It seems to store info on which file you
use in your local PC's cookies. It does have a login system. On the
right of the browser window click the person button to login. 47836
Community (completely blank page): https://forum.noteself.org/t/welcome-to-noteself-community/8
This data cannot be viewed by other people. It is notes for one user
only.
Pastebin.http://pastebin.com. I've
been using it since 2014 and no problems yet. They allow you to download
all your files into one zip file. Folders and markdown only supported
for pro members. Pro features here: https://pastebin.com/pro.
Oct 2020: Pastebin now issues warnings for "offensive content", i.e.
conservative content and requires "offensive" content to be private,
which means it won't show up in searches and only members who are logged
in can see the file. That means the user needs a Pastebin account to see
the file.
*** Stackedit.io.http://stackedit.io. You have to link your account to
one of several sites in order to save your files: Dropbox, Blogger,
Github, Gitlab, Google Drive, Wordpress, Zendesk.
You can edit files now and publish them later. Write in Markdown
then publish in HTML and share HTML link from Dropbox, Google Drive,
etc.
You must get the link to the HTML file to share from the storage
service you use, like Dropbox, Google Drive, Wordpress, etc.
Tiddlywiki. A full wiki that can be stored online,
offline, on a thumb drive, on Google Drive, Dropbox, and edited
anywhere, it can also be stored on a flash drive. It has many advanced
features too. Take a look at it. It uses its own wiki markup though but
does support markdown now via a plugin. Using Chrome with TW works best.
Firefox can have problems saving the file. http://tiddlywiki.com. TW
forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tiddlywiki Store
your TW online for free at http://tiddlyspot.com. See Getting Started here.
2020-1024. Tiddlyspot might be gone forever after a major upgrade at
Dreamhost. See http://tiddlyspot.blogspot.com/. Update: read-only wikis
can now be downloaded here but cannot be edited online.
This is a beta project. The author does not have time to answer all
questions so the help is community-based.
March 2021. Save functionality has been restored to the site.
7.4.1 Online Editors you must
install on your own server
Editor. This is code you can install for an online
markdown editor, it supports an auto TOC, including a dropdown box TOC.
It supports commonmark and standard markdown, Github markdown (GFM),
flowchart, sequence diagram, HTML entities, HTML code, Javascript,
Latex, Emoji, task lists, realtime preview, and more. Last updated in
2015. Example of editor in use: https://pandao.github.io/editor.md/en.html. Github page:
https://github.com/pandao/editor.md.
Firepad.io. This online editor which you install
yourself has real-time collaboration with no server code. Supports plain
text (code) editing and rich text editing with images! https://firepad.io/. This is
just the code. Here are sites that use this Firepad: http://socrates.io, http://coderpad.io. See http://firepad.io for more
sites that use this tool.
Socrates.io.http://socrates.io This is just a demo of an online
editor. Header1 is centered by default, rewraps text from different
lines in source, add or delete multiple documents, see hamburger menu (3
horizontal lines), no way to publish HTML on another site or storage
solution. Anyone with the link can edit the file at any time.
Typora.io. Github-flavor markdown editor for
Windows, OSX, Linux. Features: outline panel, import and export, word
count, custom themes, tables, math, code fences, diagrams, inline
styles, images. You download and install this software, it's for OS X,
Windows and Linux. http://typora.io
7.5 Blockchain/Decentralized
storage
IPFS, Interplanetary File System. https://ipfs.io/. Uses block
chain technology to hold files. Nodes can request a file to store
locally to make it more available. Still in beta. DTube is based on
this.
Safe network. Decentralizing the internet. https://safenetwork.tech/ Transfer Safecoin to any
person without transaction fees. You can create and browse content
anonymously free of charge. It stores your data forever if you
choose.
Sia coin. Distributed, private storage. You have to
pay for renting space monthly in Sia coin. https://sia.tech/
Storj. Peer-to-peer storage solution where contents
are encrypted end-to-end and no one person has the whole file. It also
has a token for storage providers. Minimum storage required to
participate: 500GB. Your PC must be on 24/7. 9/2018: there is a working
app but registrations are closed for now so new users are not allowed at
this time. http://storj.io.
Read the docs first. No new
registrations available right now. You must buy STORJ tokens in order to
pay for storage used, and storage providers must also buy STORJ tokens
to prove they are serious about providing storage.
Upfiring. A token and storage management system,
store files, get tokens, trade for cash. You also need to buy ETH
(Etherium) to pay for gas. http://upfiring.com
7.6 Decentralized web
Beaker browser. Beaker is an experimental browser
for exploring and building the peer-to-peer Web. Beaker brings
peer-to-peer publishing to the Web, turning the browser into a
supercharged tool for sharing websites, files, apps, and more. Beaker
adds support for a peer-to-peer protocol called DAT. It's the Web you
know and love, but instead of HTTP, websites and files are transported
with the DAT protocol. Deploy a website from your computer, no server
required! (You must have the Beaker browser running 24/7 for others to
see the file/web page.) Visitors connect directly to each other, sharing
your site's files and helping keep it online. https://beakerbrowser.com/ Their blog is at https://beakerbrowser.com/blog/.
May 2020: v1.0 Beta 2 is available.
Jul 2020: v1.0 Beta 7 available.
Dec 2020: New version 1.1 available.
Planktos. (Dead project?) Decentralized P2P
browsing of web pages. Still in alpha stage. 1. Planktos bundles your
website's static files into a torrent. 2. HTTP requests are intercepted
by the Planktos service worker. 3. Requested files are downloaded from
other online users via BitTorrent. https://xuset.github.io/planktos/. Github: https://github.com/xuset/planktos
Planktos bundles your website's static files into a torrent 2. HTTP
requests are intercepted by the Planktos service worker 3. Requested
files are downloaded from other online users via BitTorrent
Sep 2018: Not updated for over a year. Last update was Sep 2018.
I think this is a dead project.
http://kek.gg. Looks like
there is also an URL shortener, a meme generator, and text effects tool.
No account to help you locate your previous images for you.
https://pic8.co seem to be
different domains for the same site.
http://postimg.cc and https://postimages.org.
Image options: You can expire an image, and resize image to a specified
size or not. Expiration options are 1 day, 7 days, 31 days.
https://redacted.app/ Redacted. Upload an image, block
out parts of it, then download the updated image.
These sites appear dead.
2. **Dlive.tube.** . The one with PewDiePie. Mar 17, 2020 Dead?
2. Real.video. From Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, of . .
7.9 Git options
Gitea.io. https://gitea.io Self-hosted GIT option for many
platforms. This means you need your own server connected to the
internet. This will work on any platform where the Go language works,
like Linux, macOS, and Windows, on architectures like amd64, i386, ARM,
PowerPC, and others. Not sure if you have to install your own database
separately but it supports MySQL, Postgresql, SQLite3, MSSQL. This
requires GIT for some reason. Browsers supported: Firefox, Chrome,
Safari, Firefox ESR, MS Edge 14+. https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/
7.10 Saving web pages and whole
sites, Windows
7.10.1 Firefox addons
I recommend Scrapbee since it's easy to use and I use it.
Scrapyard. Addon for Firefox. Multiple bookmark
shelves (shelves probably act as folders). Ability to save page
fragments and entire PDF-documents. Cloud bookmarking. TODO
functionality. Import/export from org-mode files and HTML-bookmarks. It
is possible to attach text notes to any bookmark or archived page.
Sharing to Pocket or Dropbox. UbiquityWE integration. Import of
Scrapbook RDF archives. There is no need to install any external tools.
Scrapyard does not require external tools to operate and allows to
import/export data in org-mode or JSON formats. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapyard/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
WebScrapBook.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webscrapbook/.
Will only save your page to a file, under the "Downloads" folder under
Windows \users\USERNAME\downloads. You cannot define your own folder
where the pages will be saved. This requires a backend server to save
pages otherwise it won't work. Supports Firefox for Android. Supports
editing captured page.
WebScrapBook can save selected area in a page, save source page
(before processed by scripts), or save page as a bookmark. How to
capture images, audio, video, fonts, frames, styles, scripts, etc. are
also customizable. A web page can be saved as a folder, a ZIP-based
archive file (HTZ or MAFF), or a single HTML file.
Data collected via legacy ScrapBook or ScrapBook X can be imported
into WebScrapBook.
Jan 2020. Bookmarklet has changed, make sure you have the most
recent one, or go to the site itself and enter page URL to save
manually.
7.10.3 Software for Windows
Httrack.http://www.httrack.com/page/2/. GUI and command line
versions. This is faster than wget when redownloading a website that was
interrupted because it somehow saves a list of pages that were
downloaded all the way. (No longer developed. Last program update was
April 2017.)
Rclone GUI.https://rclone.org/gui/ A GUI for the rclone cmd line
tool. This GUI interface is experimental.
Wget. The GNU version: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/. Command line version
only to get and store webpages offline. Really slow when you have to
stop a download and continue it again as it has to request every page
header over again to check the date it was changed. But wget has random
pauses you can configure between files while HTTrack does not. HTTrack
is faster for continued downloads, like of large websites.
Programs to help you encrypt files or directories.
Hat.sh. Online service to encrypt or decrypt files.
Do not use for passwords. https://hat.sh/
Truecypt. Replaced by Veracrypt.
Veracrypt. For Mac OS, Windows, Linux (Debian,
Ubuntu, CentOS), Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD. Has installers and Windows
portable version. https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/VeraCrypt/
Bards.fm.https://bards.fm For producing and sharing audio blogs.
Has bounter on each blog file. I don't see a way to skip audio forward
online to skip the intro. Online audio is fair, not good, quality but
you can download the audio file for free. This uses Podbean as the
Podcast software.
Bittube.https://bittubeapp.com/?ref?2JQHEB7BZ. Earn money when
browsing the internet, free VPN when you install the Bittube browser
extension. The only reason they would do this is so they can track your
browsing habits and sell that aggregated data to someone else.
Dtube.https://d.tube/ D.Tube is the first crypto-decentralized
video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS
peer-to-peer network. Crypto coin symbol is DTC.
Rumble.com Dan Bongino's forum. Earn revenue for
videos you create. https://community.rumble.com/ support@rumble.com You can
see posts even if you are not signed in.
Screencast-o-matic.com. ($) "Capture, create and
share videos." It has its own video editor. Record for free. Starts at
$1.65usd/month. https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Sendvid.http://sendvid.com. Sendvid is a free service,
empowering people to upload, share and enjoy videos online. Hosting
millions of files requires massive resources and it simply became too
big for our previous hosting platform to handle. We are pleased to
announce we have partnered with a new team that have extensive
experience in large-scale hosting, our new gen hardware enables us to
continue to provide the high standard of service that you are used to,
while preparing us for many billions of files into the future.
Streamable.https://streamable.com/. You can upload your own local
video file or paste the URL of a video to copy it to this site.
"Streamable is the easiest way to upload, edit, and share video — it's
free to use and there's no signup required."
Video conferencing software allows all people to see and hear each
other via a video. All people in the conference must use the same
software, there are no standards with video conferencing yet. All people
doing video conferencing must have high speed internet, dialup internet
will not work.
Items in red are likely to censor conservatives to some degree, or
have censored in the past.
Jami. A GNU package. P2P encrypted instant
messaging and video calling software. All communications are E2EE using
TLS 1.3 and never stored elsewhere than on user's devices, even when
TURN servers are used. Support for Windows, Linux, IOS, MacOS, Android.
Using their app is required. https://jami.net/
Jitsi. Supports up to 75 people in one conference
for an unlimted length meeting. https://jitsi.org/ Free and open source.
Microsoft Teams.https://office.com. Not sure
they have a free standalone version or not but it comes with Office 365,
which is a paid subscription service.
Skype. WARNING: Bought by Microsoft
several years ago. https://skype.com
Team viewer.https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows/ Team
Viewer is for remote desktop access but might support video conferencing
too. One of the few apps that support Raspberry Pi along with Windows,
IOS, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, etc.
Webex. Free from Cisco. https://www.webex.com I
don't know the limits of the free account.
Zoom.https://zoom.us. Free. Easy to
use. Has paid option with more features. Majority owned by CCP/China. It
has not censored yet that I know of but beware.
Sites that allow you to livestream video and audio. Sites usually
include the ability for users to type in text comments.
Livestreams allow one person to show a video stream and others
possibly to chat with it via text chats. But they do not allow all
people to see each other and speak via video chat.
Dlive.tv.http://dlive.tv I can view
streams from a browser. Buy lemons with Amazonpay or Cryptocurrency.
This will delete any channels with the name Trump in them.
Youtube Livestream.https://youtube.com. WARNING:
heavy censorship. People can watch the livestream and chat with it, this
does not allow various people to talk via video.
10.5 Download Youtube videos
I try to find sites that are free, with higher limits on the video
size. Many of the sites I've found (not listed here) just don't work for
some reason.
Downvi. https://downvi.com Will download as video formats only.
Downloads from many other sites like Rumble, 9gag, etc. Use https://convertio.co to
convert to other formats.
Jdownloader. Software for Windows, Linux, Mac, and "Other". You will
need to install Java first. Java 1.5 or higher required. https://jdownloader.org/
Java at: https://java.com/en/download/ This link should look at
your OS and take you to the right page.
Videograbber. https://www.videograbber.net/ Works in US. You can also
use this site to convert videos, and record on-screen videos. Does not
support Youtube videos. I got an error when I tested it with a 1 hour
video on YT.
Y2Mate. Malwarebytes detected a trojan here but it works. Use with
care. You can choose different video file sizes like 720p, 360p, 1080
webm. https://y2mate.guru/en8/
YTMP3.cc. This can download a YT video to an MP3 file (audio only)
or MP4 file (video and audio). This has not worked well for me lately
but you can try it. It used to work very well. https://ytmp3.cc/en13/
Redirects to spam.
10.6 Downloading MP3 from
Youtube
http://ytmp3.com Better
than others but still does not work sometimes.
Ghosthttps://ghost.org Like Substack but takes no fees.
Custom domain included. With email newsletters, custom brand design,
multiple paid tiers, dynamic cards (whatever that means), 1000+
connected apps, open source, has API. Free to install on your own
servers.
Substack.com. https://substack.com A site for authors. Many writers
charge for their content. Sort of like a blog. This might be useful for
not getting censored. Signing up is free. You can write articles for
free or charge people. Minimum charge per reader is $5/month. Substack
takes 10% (as of 2022) of the fees writers get. Authors can allow only
paid users to comment on articles. You can style text but not color it.
They support several levels of headers, bold, italic, strikethrough,
links, images, videos. Yu can set some basic custom CSS for at theme but
you cannot color individual words for emphasis.
11.2 Uncensored speech sites
"Uncensored" does not mean they allow illegal content.
8kun. https://8kun.top Lokinet is free software that allows
you to access 8kun via Lokinet’s incrediblyrobust censorship resistant
network. The downloadable Lokinet application is cross-platform, meaning
it runs on Windows/Mac/Linux.
AKASHA. Decentralized Social Media Platform powered
by Ethereum and IPFS (Internet Planetary File System, look up IPFS in
another section of this page.). https://akasha.world/#/ I think their app is the only
way to access the site.
Bastyon.http://bastyon.com. Formerly Pocketnet. Decentralized
social media, like a blog, very resistant to censorship, stored on the
block chain. Use your browser to access the site, or use their app.
There was no way for admins to ban a person, they don't want that, so
you must block a user yourself if you don't want to see their posts. The
app will work even if the main web site is down and you can still see
the posts as they are decentralized. The nodes are run by other users
and there is no centralized authority, it was designed that way from the
ground up. Sign up here: https://pocketnet.app/index?ref=PWKRY7MzBhk8pzrBg7dJExFhsVi8DvvPSG&msocialshare=true
There are no groups. It is one huge feed of all posts on the
site.
Brax.me. Anonymous, encrypted, open source. https://brax.me/ It is not
decentralized, but very secure with private/public groups and
private/public chats, file and photo uploads, multiple blogs with
independent privacy controls. The code has also been open sourced. "For
social interaction inside the app, we do not require your identity. Even
email is optional. We have no records of IP Addresses. We offer you
options to post anonymously."
File storage limited to 4GB, file bandwidth limited to 4GB.
Email not required to register. Looks like text chat and blogs.
Has file area and blog for each person. I can't find a way to share
a file with other people, no unique URL is provided for the file. Notes
in the file area will always be encrypted.
UI still needs work. It is not like any other site so using it could
be confusing to non-computer people.
Not sure what this is in their terms: "Canund's Commercial and
Business Policy is under construction. For now, all registered business
must provide proof of registry. At this time this can be a photo of the
registration license including the owner's name."
Clouthub. https://app.clouthub.com/login No idea what this is, you
have to create an account to find out. Apps for Apple and Android
devices.
Flote.https://flote.app. Aug 2019 now in beta. You currently
cannot edit posts or comments. They do not want censorship. April 2022:
They have released v1.0 of the site. Still cannot edit your existing
post or comment. May 2022. You can edit posts now.
Foxhole. https://thefoxhole.app New site. Sign up with email.
This appears to be mostly videos and live streaming. App available but
the site runs in a browser too.
Frank. https://frankspeech.com. Open to US people to register
but you will need a cell phone. Non-US people will be able to register
on monday Apr 19, 2021. Created by CEO of MyPillow.
Gab.https://gab.com. Has short messages similar to Twitter.
Deplatformed twice.
Parler.http://parler.com Support email: support@parler.com.
Looks like a video hosting site. Based in Henderson, Nevada. They need
to verify your name and address so they collect your personal info,
which can be hacked and distributed to the wrong people. It can filter
out posts that contain keywords, or filter out bots.
Jan 11, 2021. Parler deplatformed by Amazon. It's app was removed
from Google Play, Apple expected to follow by banning its app. You can
still use Parler if you have the app though, you will just have to get
app updates from somewhere else. Jan 24, 2021. Parler not yet up, I
don't see a place to sign up or sign in, but there appear to be new
posts from admins mostly.
Poal.co. Similar software to Reddit. No idea which
way they lean. They support freedom of speech, they claim. "Alinsky
bad." https://poal.co Their
basic philosophy is at https://poal.co/s/Announcements/7986
Saidit.https://saidit.net/. Similar software to Reddit and Voat
but posts lean towards truthers and anarchism.
Tox.https://tox.app Needs app? Client app based on Qt. qTox
runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD and offers text messaging,
audio and video calls, screen sharing and file transfers. Additionally
it has support for text and audio group chats as well as Identicons as
avatars. Tox clients: https://tox.chat/clients.html
Make a post by app only. Posts can be viewed via the app or the
web.
WARNING: Telegram could be a honeypot used to trap patriots. Their
app could be used to hack your phone.
Twetch. The Decentralized social media where you
own your content, which is stored on the blockchain. All your posts are
signed by you. Use /pay for fren2fren transactions. https://twetch.app/ "What if
you could message someone without ever having to give the information
you write to a third party like Twitter or Facebook? If your messages
were completely private, and only accessible to those you give
permission, your data would truly be yours. Introducing Twetch Chat,
fully encrypted messaging using Bitcoin, AES, and ECIES. Featuring
in-app peer2peer payments and group chat support."
Every post requires a payment of at least 2 US cents.
I cannot find any way to add cash to my account while using Twetch
on the browser (Brave browser). Buy BSV coin.
Twetch support: unknown
People can pay you for articles you write.
Sep 2022. I'm getting an error when I try to created a post even
though people have paid me and I have 16 cents. I cannot find draft
posts I have saved.
Truth Social. https://truthsocial.com To open in 2022. In the meantime
you can join a waiting list. They use an Apple app which will be easily
banned from the Apple store.
VK. http://vk.com. Seems to be like Facebook where you make
posts. Possible source to live stream from?
Wire. I don't know the features or cost, the list
of features are not available if you do not sign up. http://app.wire.com
Zello. ($) https://zello.com With voice chat. Starts at $6.80usd
per month.
11.3 Censorship resistant concepts,
that are not full ready-to-use sites
Hydrus. A way to tag and share large amounts of
files anonymously. http://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/ Organize and find
files with tags, optionally share files and tags anonymously, all free.
Mostly for Windows machines. File types supported: JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF,
WEBP, BMP. Video file types supported: WEBM, MP4, MPEG, AVI, MOV, MKV,
FLV, WMV. Audio supported: MP3, FLAC, OGG, WMA. Misc supported: SWF,
PDF, PSD, ZIP, RAR, 7Z.
Solid uses pods on Amazon, which has been known to censor data.
Pods only seem to be able to store data, and files. There is no
evidence of chat apps or something similar yet.
11.4 Decentralized and secure
messaging, no internet required
These are not chat sites, nor group chat sites. These are more
user-to-user messaging.
Briar An ultra-secure peer-to-peer instant
messenger app that connects to contacts via Direct Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or
Tor over the internet, keeping its users protected from surveillance and
censorship. https://briarproject.org/ 80% of Tor exit nodes are
owned by some gov't.
Bridgefy. This app uses Bluetooth, with or without
the internet or cell network.
Freedomcells. Is it safe or a honeypot? Freedomcell
network. Networks of autonomous cells with peaceful resistance. You do
not need to enter your real address, just enter an address near you. You
do not need to enter your real name. https://freedomcells.org/
Mesh chat.https://mesh.im. Get a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer
instant messenger app. One messenger for Internet and LAN chat with
end-to-end encryption. Still in alpha testing. P2P means your message is
not sent on unless your phone gets close enough to another phone
actually running the Mesh app. So, without enough people running Mesh,
messages can be slow to get going to where they should.
Scuttlebutt (New Zealand). A decent(ralised) secure
gossip platform that no company can control and also happens to also
work offline. Scuttlebutt is a protocol on which many different kinds of
apps can be built. As for the social network, there are many clients,
just like there are many Twitter clients. It doesn't really matter which
one you use. They're all talking on the same network. It uses Markdown
formatting. https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
11.5 Decentralized and secure
messaging, internet required
Session. For Android, IOS, Desktop. Session is an
end-to-end encrypted messenger that removes sensitive metadata
collection, and is designed for people who want privacy and freedom from
any forms of surveillance. https://getsession.org/ No phone numbers needed, no data
breaches, open source, censorship resistant (no central point of
failure), messages sent through onion network. Support: mailto:support@getsession.org
Signal. Signal is a mobile app developed by Open
Whisper Systems. The app provides instant messaging, as well as voice
and video calling. All communications are end-to-end encrypted. Signal
is free and open source. https://signal.org/
Wire. ($) Now a paid software End-to-End Encrypted
chatting application that supports instant messaging, voice, and video
calls. Full source code is available. https://wire.com/ Wire Pro: 4 euro/month. Wire
Enterprise: 8 euro/month.
XMPP - Federated instant messaging protocol with
OMEMO, OTR, or OpenPGP end-to-end encryption. THIS IS A PROTOCOL, not a
site for messaging. https://xmpp.org/
EFFs guide to compare secure chat apps via table of
features. This is a really handy, detailed page. You can also show only
apps with a given function via a filter. More secure chat apps here.
Includes country of origin for each app. https://securechatguide.org/effguide.html
July 2020. Banned a bunch of conservative servers.
Oct 2020. Banned some more conservative servers and people. Some
conservative accounts taken over to cause havoc.
Oct 15, 2020. More conservative servers and users banned.
May 7, 2022. More cons servers and users banned.
September 2022. 2 rounds of bans purge more people and servers
posting studies about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Element.http://element.io. Element is an opensource
interoperable app running on Web, iOS and Android. It is built around
chat rooms, both public and private and provides messaging, filesharing,
voice and video conferencing (beta on Android and web), integrations to
tools like GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and much more soon. Element is built on
the https://Matrix.org open
standard which provides bridges to other systems such as Slack, IRC and
a lot more soon. One can use the hosted service or run their own. Use it
via browser, or via the app for MacOS, IOS, Android, Windows. It's on
Apple app store and http://play.google.com. Log in at http://app.element.io.
App is now called Element. There is now a web interface to
chatting.
Font of the site can be changed.
Email not required for registering nor is phone number, but if you
want to reset your password, register with your email.
On DOGEcoin channel use these commands: .help. val DOGE (value in
USD), .doge (value in BTC), .faucet (answer question to get free DOGE).
Questions: "Of 9 and 2 which is 9?" answer = "9". "Of 1 and 2 which is
1?" answer="1". Use .balances to see balance of all coins.
Pilled. Rate a stream red pill or blue pill. It
seems to have a graph of "pills" by day. It has blogs, articles and
opinions. It seems to host live videos while people can use text chat.
Jun 2021: very very slow on "How to" board. https://pilled.net/#/welcome
Slack. ($) https://slack.com Free option: access team's last 10,000
messages; 10 integrations like with Google Drive, Office 365, and more;
1:1 voice and video calls.
Teamspeak. Troop messenger. This requires you to
use their app. App is for Windows, 32 or 64 bit, MacOS, Linux, Android,
and IOS. https://teamspeak.com
Wire.http://app.wire.com There is no about screen or info one
can see if they are not logged in.
Oystter.https://github.com/oysttyer/oysttyer. Save tweets as a
text file. Command line program that uses Perl, so it runs where ever
Perl will run. You must install this and Perl and run it yourself. I
suspect you need a Twitter API key also.
Tweetdownload. Download your own tweets. You must
sign in with Twitter first. This means you can only download your own
tweets. https://www.tweetdownload.net/
Tweetsave. Save one tweet at a time. http://tweetsave.com. Also
has a Firefox plugin and a bookmarklet.
Twitter thread reader. To unroll a thread, type a
reply with "@threadreaderapp unroll" in the reply. https://threadreaderapp.com/
TAGS is a tool to let you search Twitter and save
those searches to a Google Sheet spreadsheet online. https://tags.hawksey.info/
IRC means "Internet Relay Chat". IRC is very old style text chat that
goes back to the 1980s or even earlier. On some servers, depending on
what features they support, they MIGHT support graphic smileys, but
really most of them support ascii smileys like :). IRC is where the
ascii smileys started, along with Usenet and plain text forums and
discussion groups. They normally only support text and no graphics. You
can post an image by posting a link to it.
An IRC server has many channels on it. To set up an IRC server you
must know its IP address and the port it uses for IRC. Once you connect
to a server you cannot talk/type until you connect to a channel. All IRC
channels begin with a '#' pound/hashtag sign.
There are different server "networks" or "nets". In each network,
there are "public" and "private" IRC servers. You want a public
server.
How to set up IRC using Hexchat for Windows 8 and 10 computers. PDF:
https://mega.nz/file/vLwmlbyT#umTmztUu2bEv_xSJRc85XlG8MJrISicXix1iBib8zbM
This has several IRC servers and their IP addresses. It also lists IRC
software you can use with Windows, Linux, Android and Iphone/Ipad.
LimeChat should also work on MacOS as one of my friends has already done
that.
If you ask for tech support please understand the difference
between IOS and MacOS, they are not the same at all. A program
made for IOS will not run on MacOS and vice versa. Make sure you
understand that Apple is a company name, not an operating system, and
not a computer model. Microsoft is a company name, not an operating
system. Microsoft's operating system (OS) is Windows. Apple makes 2 OSs:
IOS for the Ipad and Iphone, and MacOS for Mac desktop PCs. I know this
is technical stuff but details for clear communication really matter at
this level. If you don't understand something, ask, and take notes.
Here are IRC sites with setup info. The first item is the server (sometimes called "network") name. The set of 4 numbers separated by a period is the IP address. The port, after a / forward slash, is normally 6667 but is sometimes different.
1. FTLNet, 45.32.197.245/6667
2. FTLNet backup, 67.197.67.235/6667
3. Freenode, 195.154.200.232/6667 (compromised)
4. EFNet, 209.222.22.22/6667 (compromised)
5. Dalnet, 194.14.236.50/6667 (compromised)
Gotomeeting. https://gotomeeting.com Gotomeeting might also be used
to record video and host it.
Podbean.com. https://podbean.com. Put your podcast online for people
to listen to. Free plan: 5 hours total, 100GB monthly bandwidth. No
video podcasts on the free version.
Brave. https://brave.com. Earn BAT tokens while you browser.
Built in ad blocking and tracker blocking. Has a feature where you right
click an image and you can open just the image in a new browser tab.
There seem to be a lot of problems transferring BAT (the Brave token) to
an Uphold wallet. This uses Google addons. Get help with Desktop Brave:
https://community.brave.com/c/support-and-troubleshooting/desktop-support/75
Brave also has the ability to right click and image to open it in
another tab.
Brave has the ability to block an HTML element by right clicking it.
This is really handy.
Brave now has built-in TOR connections. Just open a TOR window.
Brave does the rest.
Opera. Has free built-in VPN, built-in ad blocker
and tracker blocker. Organize tabs with Workspaces, save web content,
watch popped-out videos, share stuff with Pinboards, share files with
Opera on all your devices. https://www.opera.com/
Opera now offers a free VPN for browsing only. This does not affect
the other apps on the operating system.
Opera now offers a free AI via their browser called Aria. It
requires you make an Opera account and sign in. Aria cannot be used any
other way.
Vivaldi. Built-in Features: privacy first, built-in
translation, calendar, RSS reader, ad and tracker blocker, email, page
translation, supports Chrome extensions (so it's probably based on
Google's Chromium), screen capture, tab groups, page zoom, take notes in
a side panel, custom macros. Fully loaded version adds: mail client,
calendar, feed reader, contacts. https://vivaldi.com/features/
Web Activity Time Tracker. Tracks the time on each
website you visit, and presents it as a pie graph, and list. Each graph
can be for one day, or all time.
13 Link shorteners
Handy if your content gets censored. If the original URL of the
content changes the short URL does not. You simply point the short URL
at the new URL and you're done. Many sites will block these short URLs
because spammers use them.
http://tiny.cc. Part of
301works at http://www.archive.org/details/301works. Are their daily
hit graphs for each URL free now? Now I have free daily hit graphs.
Pricing at https://tinycc.com/. They have a free version. Free
version may have gotten more features in July 2020. There's the free
plan, and the Basic plan is $5/month or $55/year.
Does not support: Friendpaste, qanonbin.
Tribal. http://trib.al Link
shortening and advanced analytics.
Link Tree. http://linktr.ee Put all your social and media links
here so people can find you.
14.2 Secure Operating systems
There's no such thing as a totally secure OS but these are more
secure and anonymous than others. Some can be booted from a flash
drive.
Liberty OS. https://www.libertyos.net/?p=877. A
blockchain OS which runs on old PC, blocks ads at the system level,
built-in TOR routing, earn LIB tokens, natively supports many
cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and many more.
QUX. A secure internet appliance. $
https://boingboing.net/2021/09/15/150-qux-gadget-sure-looks-a-lot-like-this-generic-linux-tv-box-that-wholesalers-list-for-15.html
Is this a similar thing?
https://www.amazon.com/Android-7-1-2-Box-X96-Mini/dp/B07Q26XFG1?dchild=1&keywords=x96+mini&sr=8-2&linkId=289e1af801d56e6ab35a0ed63e074264&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
Tails. A whole OS you can boot from a USB flash
drive. It has these tools: TOR browser built in, uses LUKS to encrypt
your drive, wipe files with Nautilus Wipe, based on Debian linux.
Requirements: 2GB ram, 64-bit Intel PC, not ARM or PowerPC. Free.
https://tails.boum.org/
Whonix. Whonix is a desktop operating system
designed for advanced security and privacy. Whonix mitigates the threat
of common attack vectors while maintaining usability. Online anonymity
is realized via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor
network. Features: can be installed to and boot from USB, can run in
VirtualBox. https://www.whonix.org/ Compare Whonix to Tor browser,
Tails, Qubes: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others.
Mail2tor. https://mail2tor.com Anonymous email option. Maybe for
whistleblowers. They have webmail, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP access. Tor must
be installed on your computer.
Mailfence.https://mailfence.com/index.jsp Secure and private
email. Free sign up. No tracking, privacy protection, protected under
Belgian law. Encryption, digital signatures, keystore. It also has
calendars, file storage and more. Browser-based, end-to-end encryption.
Supports OpenPGP standard. Encrypt only emails with some people or all
people.
Protonmail.http://protonmail.com. Your
email is always encrypted, end-to-end encryption, even Protonmail
personnel cannot read your email. ProtonMail's servers are locked down
under 1,000 meters of solid rock, in a Swiss bunker that can survive a
nuclear attack. And its digital security is about as impressive. It
began development by a team of CERN Large Hadron Collider scientists in
the wake of the 2013 Snowden leak, and has since become the #1 most-used
secure email service with over five million users.
o June 2020 Protonmail now supports "diversity", racism, and
hate, and the UN. Be warned.
Interplanetary File Sharing system. This is mainly to share files
like PDFs and images.
This is a great idea but there are not many nodes with copies of the
data out there so data retrieval is VERY slow.
*** Fediverse. List of decentralized projects that can talk to each
other, like various types of social networking, microblogging, web
pages, etc. https://fediverse.party/ Apps include:
Diaspora: online world where you are in control,
choose your audience. 3 main philosophies: decentralization, freedom,
privacy. You own your data. You can also follow tags, and people.
PROS: You can follow #hashtags. I like their email system, and if
you click on the post link, the original post is on the left with
comments on the right. Otherwise in the feed (called "stream") the post
is first followed by comments below it.
CONS: You cannot edit a comment on a post or the post itself.
Friendica: personal network. https://friendi.ca/.
Decentralized architecture with no central authority or ownership.
Access lists for every item. Private conversation groups — on these
pages all communications are restricted to group members. One-to-one
private messaging on supported protocols. Optionally "expire" old
content after a certain period of time. Download your personal data. It
all belongs to you. Built-in support for StatusNet, GNU social, Quitter,
and diaspora*. Support for email contacts and communications (two-way)
via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP. Import arbitrary websites and blogs into your
social stream via RSS/Atom feeds.
PROS:
CONS:
GNU Social: connecting free and independent
communities across the web. https://gnu.io/social. Socialist and SJW network. That
means, highly censored.
Hubzilla: feature-rich social platform with
decentralized nomadic identity. Hubs are the decentralized computers
that run Hubzilla. A channel can represent many different things: a
person, a blog, or a forum to name a few. Channels can make connections
with other channels to share information with highly detailed
permissions. Channels are addressed using a familiar channel@hub.domain
format. Nomadic identity means true ownership of online identity. With
Hubzilla, you don't have an account on a server, you own an identity
that you can take with you across the grid. You can clone a channel
across multiple hubs for resilience against network failures or
censorship, or you can completely move a channel from one hub to
another, taking your data and connections with you. Typical websites are
isolated and have no idea who is accessing their content, and controlled
access to data is limited to permissions settings between individual
accounts on a site. If you want to share information in a controlled way
off-site, you're out of luck. Hubzilla enforces fine-grained permissions
for information shared across the grid, and websites on hubs are
identity-aware. Single sign-on allows seamless authentication across
independent websites in a way never before possible. http://hubzilla.org Click
here to run your own hub https://zotlabs.org/help/en/admin/administrator_guide.
It will run on most any Linux VPS system. Windows LAMP platforms such as
XAMPP and WAMP are not officially supported at this time.
You can store files here and add folders, but files must be
uploaded, there is no text editor. There is also a wiki for each person,
and webpage hosting. I could not find the web page hosting or wiki
functions.
You do make a user, but you don't make just content, you make a
channel first, then put content into that channel, so make sure your
channel has a unique, never-used name, then put content (a post) into
the channel.
Posts do not support markdown, they support BBCode, but the Wiki and
Webpage supports markdown.
Posts support hashtags.
Supports @username mentions. For usernames with a space use @"John
Smith".
Pleroma: light microblogging platform, like
Twitter. Use Raspberry Pi as a server.
Socialhome: personal homepage with social
functionality. Uses markdown for formatting, yay! Upload local images or
use links to images. A person makes a post and people can reply to it. 2
million users as of June 2018. https://socialhome.network/
How do I register? Do I have to register for each site
separately? Yes.
17 Testing your internet speed
These will generally test your upload and download speeds. Upload
speeds are often slower than the download speeds. This normally only
affects users who create and upload large files (like videos) to video
hosting sites.
Remember to disable any ad and script blockers when you go to the
speed test site or it may not work properly.
NOTE: Speeds are not generally guaranteed by US ISPs, for
home service, the speed is a goal not a guarantee.
Speedtest. Shows your IP, detects your ISP. Shows ping speed, upload
and download speeds. https://www.speedtest.net/
18 US Gov't resources
US Congress. https://congress.gov This should hold full text of all
bills, pending and passed by each part of Congress, along with who
sponsored the bills.
US House of Representatives. https://house.gov This should hold all info on bills
that originate in the house. All spending and tax bills must start in
the HOUSE, then they go to the Senate for modification or approval.
Federal register. https://www.federalregister.gov/ Contains lots of
material about bills, and what is going on in Congress and the US Gov't.
Most bills and transcripts of speeches are stored here but it could take
a 3-7 days for them to appear on this site. Speech transcription takes
time.
Library of congress. A more historical site with old records. https://loc.gov/
