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8 prospective projects to grow the free-world portion of the Internet

  1. Free-world compatible bug tracker:

    (problem) You intend to report a bug, but the project officially uses an exceptionally controversial bug tracker (e.g. Gitlab.com or MS Github).

    (solution) Users report the bug wherever they want (forum, mailing list, Mastodon, usenet), then a reference to the ad-hoc bug report is indexed somewhere so users can browse all existing reports for a particular project. A similar idea is proposed here: https://pleroma.libretux.com/objects/c2e53ffd-212b-42c7-92cf-2ab7422e0372

  2. Censorship Whistleblower:

    Maintains local copy of posts to Reddit & Lemmy. Periodically checks public (cookieless) view of those articles. Logs & alerts on shadowban/censorship/moderator actions.

    Perhaps collaborate on metrics to expose patterns of censorship. Perhaps automatically post copies of censored material in a out-of-band place that has different people in power.

  3. Citation Scrubber/Optimizer for essays:

    1. Accepts text-based file or a link to an already published doc, parses out all URLs and checks for:

      • Tor hostility (403, CloudFlare, Impurva, tar-pitting)
      • assets of tech giants (CloudFlare, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure, etc)
      • JavaScript that fails LibreJS
      • dead links

    2. Creates report showing:

      • any offending discoveries from the above checks
      • most recent mirror link found in wayback machine (regardless of article quality/ethics, in case the article later disappears)
      • alternate links to nefarious/harmful links

    3. Produces new markdown version (if the input was in markdown), which automatically applies the suggested changes. Perhaps give an option to retain the bad links but annotate warnings.

  4. Surfraw Expansion:

    CLI search tool with results imported to a local db for filtering and analysis before using. E.g. CloudFlare results could be given a reduced ranking.

  5. Mastodon pro-netneutrality client:

    • When posting: checks your link to see if the document has access restrictions (e.g. paywall, blocks tor, CloudFlare). If yes, it edits your toot with an archive.org version of the link and keeps you in the editor.

    • When reading: posts containing bad links are hidden or replacement links are attached. Stats are kept so chronic offenders can be unfollowed, muted, or targeted for etiquette pursuasion/gentle lecturing.

  6. Mastodon pro-netneutrality server:

    Similar to the client. Posts with Tor-hostile and/or CloudFlare links are refused.

  7. Email address free-society compatibility tester:

    Does an MX lookup & checks whether an email address is hosted in a walled-garden like Gmail or MS Outlook, and reports known situations that the server refuses RFC-compliant messages. E.g. some servers will reject a message if the domain of the FROM address doesn't match the reverse lookup of the connecting IP; some reject connections from dynamic IPs, thus forcing senders to share the message with another third party.

    Perhaps state the retention policy of the server, if known, and/or the legal retention limits in that jurisdiction.

    Checks whether the email address has a PGP key on public keyrings.

  8. Wire-Bitlbee plugin

    Wire is a better alternative to Signal, but the bloated client app is Electron based. A bitlbee plugin would make it possible to use any IRC client the user wants.

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