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  • Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

    Suggestion to the owners of the SFD webpage

    I would appreciate the SFD initiative even more, if on the SFD webpage you would “live by your own words”.

    Facebook and the blue bird are by no means free software, also not according to your definitions “free to study [how the program works]”, “free to distribute [copies]”, “free to modify [the software]”, “free to access [the source code]”.

    So why not at least show the benefits and use FOSS social media alternatives in action?
    If you need the momentum of the unfree social media, you still could do this additionally.








  • MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

    https://metager.org | https://metager.de

    From their About page:

    What makes MetaGer special?

    MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

    • Possibility of creating a personal blacklist
    • Function of the search in the search
    • Advertising-free search possible
    • Integration of search engine projects like YaCy
    • The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes
    • And much more…

    What We Stand For

    Guaranteed Privacy

    Data protection and privacy are important to us. That’s why we don’t track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy (“Open Anonymously” feature).

    Non-Profit Association

    MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

    Diverse and Free

    MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

    100% Renewable Energy

    Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.