https://www.chatons.org/

CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). CHATONS is a collective initiated by the association Framasoft in 2016 following the success of its campaign De-google-ify Internet.

https://joplinapp.org
Note-taking app (cross-platform)

Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.

Rocky:

I love Joplin... and if you don´t know it jet you may try it out for your self.

Joplin is very extendible

There is a Appimage and a Flatpak for Linux which work very well

https://joplinapp.org/
https://joplinapp.org/help/install/
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

and an apk for android:
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/net.cozic.joplin/

The notes can be securely synchronised using end-to-end encryption with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive , Joplin Cloud or the Hubzilla Cloud.

There is a joplin-web-clipper for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/joplin-web-clipper

and lost of other Plugins
https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-list/17671

https://disroot.org/en

Disroot is a project that was born from the personal need to communicate, share and organize ourselves within our circles through tools that met a series of fundamental criteria for us: they had to be open, decentralized, federated and above all respectful towards freedom and privacy. None of the most popular solutions complied with them, but in our search we found some very interesting projects that did. And since we thought that they should be available to all those with similar ethical principles, we decided not only to group these applications and share them with others, but also to manage them according to those values. That's how Disroot started.

The project is based in Amsterdam, was founded by Muppeth and Antilopa in 2015, it is maintained by volunteers and relies on the support of its community. Between 2017 and 2018, a group of members started to get very actively involved and to collaborate very closely. In 2019, two of them, Fede and Meaz, officially became part of the Core Team that manages the platform. Two years later, in 2021, Avg_Joe joined the tasks and responsibilities.

Disroot aims to change the way people are used to interact on the web. We want to encourage and show them not only that there are open and ethical alternatives but also that it is the only possible way to break free from the walled gardens proposed and promoted by proprietary software and corporations, either through our platform, others that have similar values and goals or even their own projects.

We are convinced that we can build together a truly independent network, focused on the benefit of the people and not on their exploitation.

Services:
Email, cloud (Nextcloud), XMPP Chat, shared document editing, Fediverse services, calls, git, audio, more...

Digital Gardening Explained

How to set up your own digital garden Tools for:  building a non-code digital garden (suggests  Obsidian Publish, Public Roam Database, Notion, Tiddlywiki, Mental Nodes); building with code (suggests Jeykyll, Eleventy, Gatsby and static site builders)

Digital Gardens Let You Cultivate Your Own Little Bit of the Internet

A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media

An overview.

Garden and Stream...

From April 2020

We’ll be discussing and brainstorming ideas related to wikis and the IndieWeb, user interfaces, functionalities, examples of wikis and how they differ from blogs and other social media interfaces, and everyones’ ideas surrounding these. Bring your ideas and let’s discuss.

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

2015

I am going to make the argument that the predominant form of the social web — that amalgam of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, forums, Reddit, Instagram — is an impoverished model for learning and research and that our survival as a species depends on us getting past the sweet, salty fat of “the web as conversation” and on to something more timeless, integrative, iterative, something less personal and less self-assertive, something more solitary yet more connected.

Makes powerful arguments for the garden style web as a means to aggregate knowledge, find connections.

https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden

Classic article on "digital gardening"

Digital Garden Terms of Service

This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding “terms of service” for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.