Service Catalog

This is our complete catalog of hosted services. For an overview of how our open-source services compare to commercial ones, see our main services page.

Available

These services are reliable and ready to be used.

Molly is an open fork of Signal, the secure messaging app. The Signal iOS and Android apps have proprietary components and rely on Apple's Push Notification Service and Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging. That means your notifications are going through Apple and Google, though your messages are encrypted.

Molly is a pure open-source version of Signal with a few extra security improvements, using Signal's network, available for Android. Molly relies on the open Unified Push standard to deliver notifications. Our recommended Unified Push provider is ntfy. Signal's servers don't support Unified Push, therefore a tool, called Mollysocket is needed to deliver your notifications to Molly.

Our hosted Mollysocket can be used freely by anyone. It doesn't store your notifications or any sensitive data. To use it, install Molly and a Unified Push provider, such as ntfy, then scan our Mollysocket QR code when the app asks you to.

In Testing

We are working on adding these services as soon as possible. Some of the listed services can be tried in our beta testing, but they are not yet ready for regular use, and the data may be deleted at any time. Keep an eye on this page for updates!

Matrix (stylized as [matrix]) is an open standard for secure, decentralized communication. It works similarly to Discord or Slack, but is open-source and decentralized, supports end-to-end encrypted messaging, and won't sell your data.

We host matrix with the server implementation called Tuwunel, and we recommend using FluffyChat as a client. We primarily use our matrix server for collaboration within the association, and you are welcome to join to get in touch with us, or just sign up to try it out.

To protect our server from spam, you need to provide a registration token during the registration process:

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Try it at https://matrix.freeyourtech.org/register/matrix.freeyourtech.org!

Nextcloud is a self-hosted, open-source, privacy-respecting alternative to Google Drive, Dropbox, and other cloud storage services. It allows you to store and share files and photos and you can enable end-to-end encryption to protect your data. The Nextcloud smartphone app supports automatic photo uploading. The web app supports a variety of extra features, such as collaborative note taking, activity log, shared calendar, task tracker, kanban board, polls, forms, and organised pages for collectives.

Our instance is available for testing at https://nextcloud.freeyourtech.org/. There are currently no back-ups, so don't store anything important there yet. We are currently working on a backup solution and we aim for a full release in the next few weeks. The service will be available to members only and accessible through our Single Sign-On (SSO) system. Before your first sign-in, you have to click reset password to set your password. Your username is the same as it is on Open Collective, it is automatically synced from the membership system.

Planned

These services are planned to be added as soon as we find the time to do so.

CryptPad is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted, collaborative office suite. It is similar to Google Docs or Office 365, but it offers more tools and respects your privacy.

ntfy is highly reliable Unified Push distributor. It allows open-source apps on your phone to send you push notifications. It is similar to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), but it is open-source and privacy-respecting. We recommend that you use the official instance at until we set ours up.