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1 Notes
* ($) means it's a pay service but might have a free option.
Some sites may not be available anymore.
DISCLAIMER: Before using any website or downloading any software be
sure to have an anti-malware package running. I cannot be responsible
for others mistakes.
Site names in red have been known to censor content.
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.
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.com Owned by
Paypal now.
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.
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 which is 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,
Itty.bitty.site. Encodes a small amount of text
into the website URL itself. It holds about as much as a printed page.
Bypass a 280 character limit for the URL. It can have a title,
description, favicon, image and password. You don't need a server to
host it. https://itty.bitty.site
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,
Neocities. FREE. No ads, supports only JS, HTML,
CSS and a few other files. This cannot be used as file storage as your
storage is limited. https://neocities.org
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.
7 File sharing
Aka "cloud storage", like Dropbox or Google Drive.
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.
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 $5usd/month will make your
files permanent.
Hashbase.($) 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
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 share, 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. This might be in India. 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/
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/seeder'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
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. An online Markdown editor. 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
Github 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.
Github pages.https://pages.github.com/ Github Pages for a free web
page. Has free option? Github now owned by Microsoft.
Hashify me. Type in markdown, and make a short link
for the file. https://hashify.me. Rewraps all lines in a paragraph.
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.
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://x.com/friendpaste
(This site has been hacked.)
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.org/. 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. 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".
*** 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
MEditor. 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.
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.
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
May 20, 2026. This page was blank.
7.6 Decentralized web
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.
## Decentralized selling
None
7.7 Storing images for free
These are the impartial image sites where you are less likely to get
censored.
http://catbox.moe. Each
file can be up to 200MB. Blocked at the router level by some third-party
block lists.
($) https://cloudinary.com/. Has a free option. Upload
images and videos, has detailed feature guide for each pricing
tier.
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.
Unknown if these below are impartial sites.
7.8 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/
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.
7.9.3 Download web sites, Software
for Windows
Software to download a web page or whole websites to your local
PC.
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.
Veracrypt. For Mac OS, Windows, Linux (Debian,
Ubuntu, CentOS), Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD. Has installers and Windows
portable version. https://veracrypt.io/en/Downloads.html
9 Audio
Audius. Upload file size limit is 200mb. Stream
your own audio. https://audius.co/
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.
Gettr. https://gettr.com I don't think an app is required to
access this site.
Invidio. You must now choose a mirror: see the
original site for a list of mirrors: https://invidio.us.
Locals.com I know you can post videos here, it
might also act like a blog. You can also make money here. "Get paid in
real time." https://locals.com
Loom.com.http://loom.com by Atlassian. Record a video of your
screen and send it.
Rumble.com Earn revenue for videos you create. https://community.rumble.com/ support@rumble.com You can
see posts even if you are not signed in.
Screenpal. ($) "Capture, create and share videos."
It has its own video editor. Record for free. Starts at $1.65usd/month.
https://screenpal.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."
10.2 Video conferencing
alternatives
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 content 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.
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.com. 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.
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 Download videos from Facebook,
Instagram, TikTok. 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.
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/
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. "Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create,
share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern
tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer
paid subscriptions to members."
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.
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 at this time. It is one huge feed of all posts
on the site.
It is now named Bastyon.
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.
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.
Hubpages.https://hubpages.com Looks like a blog only website,
free option. Has its own link shortener.
Lindelltv. https://lindelltv.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.
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.
Make a post by app only. Posts can be viewed via the app or the
web.
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.
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 fully 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.
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
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.
Tiny.cc.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/. 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.
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.
Mailfence.https://mailfence.com/ 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.
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/