What a wonderful project - thanks so much for sharing! 
My only reservation would be that it’s US-specific, whereas we’re based in the UK… but I don’t see any harm in popping it on the list! 
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Thanks so much! And yes, for now we’re focused on US trail data, but this is mainly due to our small list of contributors.
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The following all fit in a Blogging category. I have personally used all three of these. They are all paid platforms at affordable prices for private individuals. No advertising or surveillance.
A different kind of social network based on microblogging. One that respects the people who use it. You can take part by adding your own blog feed at no extra cost, or use the hosted version.
Blot is an interface free blogging tool. All you do is save markdown text to a Dropbox file, or Git repository. That’s it.
There is no publish button. It’s seriously the fastest and easiest way I have ever found to publish a personal blog. Excellent tech support from the developer. Last time I enquired it does not even use cookies.
Posthaven is the follow-up to Posterous the blogging platform bought and closed down by Twitter. The original developers were so frustrated by what Twitter did to their creation that they started again with the promise to keep all content online as long as possible. After you have paid for 12 months, your posts stay online even after you stop paying. Their second promise is to not sell the platform ever again.
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Can we add Startmail under Email services?
Below are the ethical reasons:
- Encrypted.
- It’s from the Startpage team, which has already been listed under Search engine.
As listed in their webstie:
We never read your email.
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Ahoy,
I see that smartphone OS’es are also listed under the Smartphones category. One that I think should also be here is Ubuntu Touch[1].
It’s a free software GNU/Linux OS based on Ubuntu for desktop, but for smartphones. It was started by Caniconal as an alternative to iPhone and Android, but later abandoned and now completely community driven and developed. It can already run on several devices and is usable as a daily driver.
One of the promoted devices is the Fairphone 2. Fairphone also refers to UT as an alternative OS on their website[2].
Purism has also stated they have partnered with the UBports community to get UT ported to the Librem5[3].
Ethical points:
- FLOSS
- Community driven
- Privacy respecting
- GNU/Linux based, not Android based (which in itself may not mean much to some, but it’s nice to know that you’re not dependent on Google even for the base of your OS)
[1] https://ubports.com
[2] https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/204642759-What-operating-system-OS-does-the-Fairphone-2-run-on-
[3] I can only post two links, but I found the announcement from Purism when doing an internet search for “purism ubuntu touch” on Startpage
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Apologies if someone has already recommended this company, but I use Leaping Bunny (https://www.leapingbunny.org/ ) to find cruelty-free products. I’ve found their list to be the most thorough and transparent guide to buying products that are cruelty free. They’ve really helped me to identify products that are cruelty-free throughout the entire life cycle of a product (supply, manufacture, production, etc.).
Anyway, love the directory so far and thanks for reading.
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I wonder if Telegram (telegram.org) would qualify as an ethical messaging service. They’re focused on privacy, don’t display ads. AFAIK they’re completely funded out of their CEO’s (Pavel Durov) Pocket. The only thing that makes them a bit dubious to me is that they wanted to make their service open source, but haven’t completely open-sourced everything yet (last time I checked, I could only find part of their mobile client to be open-source)
But I think they’re a good first alternative to whatsapp, I’ve deleted my whatsapp account and started using telegram exclusively, later made a signal account too.
https://telegram.org
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also, another tech that I’ve been interested since I’ve stumbled upon it a while ago is this:
po.et
might fit with blogging, video hosting and social networking
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welcome @Brunsvold!
i think a “Leaping Bunny Approved” badge would be great to add to the “reviews and certifications” section of a brand profile 
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Thanks so much for the suggestion! 
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The fact that telegram doesn’t use end to end encryption by default has been a bit hyped up and blown out of proportion I would personally say… for example riot.im doesn’t do that by default yet (in fact, I guess they’re actually sending plaintext by default?! or maybe at least ssl encryption) yet it’s still a very good im network.
not e2e encrypted though doesn’t mean the same as not encrypted, it just means that the server would theoretically be able to see your messages. And you can also use secret chats which are e2e encrypted.
Here’s a statement on this by someone associated with telegram: https://tgraph.io/Why-you-should-stop-reading-Gizmodo-right-now-Long
I think everyone should form their own opinion on the matter of e2e encryption. I personally trust telegram and I also trust that the cloud encryption protocol they’ve developed in-house is reasonably secure, you should just be aware that you should rather ideally use offline communication, strong pgp encryption or at least secret chats for stuff that you really want to keep a secret.
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Hey all 
I’d like to recommend New Internationalist for the magazine section, they’re a co-op magazine covering real world and social issues 
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Hello,
Not sure in which category it can fit, but I would like to suggest CoopCycle.
It is basically a platform co-op alternative to Deliveroo, Uber-Eats, etc… it is open source software, but with a restriction for commercial usage: your company needs to respect the law of social & solidarity economy.
(Disclaimer: I’m a member of the CoopCycle organization)
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Definitely! Thanks for reminding us 
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Hi all!
I would like to suggest WBO. It’s a free and open-source real-time drawing board for team collaboration. It does not track its users, and you can easily run it on your own server.
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firefox addon to give you an eco tip everytime you open and new window https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ecolist/
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I think the messengers section should include XMPP messengers. Good ones are Gajim (Desktop), Quicksy / Conversations (both Android).
Why? From an ethics standpoint, I don’t know any other technology that is better suited for messaging. Open, decentralized, federated, encrypted, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, did I miss something? The biggest issue with XMPP is that iOS and MacOS clients are not up-to-date or still kinda unreliable (Monal & ChatSecure).
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I’d like to suggest adding Open Food Network in the organizations’ section.
we’re a global community of people from local projects all around the world that builds an e-commerce platform for food enterprises to boost short food supply chains. We then offer the software as Saas to our communities.
Each local instances (country-based) puts funds into a common global pot that pays for development and maintenance costs, which would be impossible to cover by each one separately.
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