Disroot is a volunteer-run project offering free, privacy-focused online services like email, cloud storage and Git hosting, and this is its blog.
HN links it as an example of a donation-funded, non-profit alternative host for email and cloud services, based in the Netherlands.
Disroot.org, https://disroot.org/en
ProtonMail, https://www.protonmail.com
Tutanota, https://tutanota.com
Zohomail, https://zoho.com
The first three are just copied and pasted from this article:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/foss-software-alternatives-popular-proprietary-software
I've used (am using) Zoho for a domain of mine. It doesn't see a lot of use - but it's worked whenever I've needed it.
In what way? Not in mature stable clients or in system resources for hosting a server. There’s issues around the centralization of Matrix.org and I've seen many cases where folks spun up then spun down a Matrix server 'cause it costs too much to run. In the case of Disroot, the closed their server to open an XMPP server instead.
https://disroot.org/de/blog/matrix-closure
Like Framasoft? Not that I know of. There are local versions in Europe. A lot smaller is https://disroot.org from the Netherlands.
There are floss projects that are growing:
- Nextcloud (German)
- Mastodon (German)
- Element/Matrix (UK and French)
- Pixelfed (Canada)
- Small Tech (Ireland)
I didn't try personally, but i heard from some hosting cooperatives they dropped synapse (and matrix entirely) because it was too resource hungry. for example disroot https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure
There are various similar communities, which don't have to compete with one another because the internet is a big place. Two that jump to mind are https://tildeverse.org and https://disroot.org.
There is: https://aria-net.org/SitePages/Portal/Bridges.aspx
Matrix.org also has an XMPP implementation (see https://disroot.org/en/services/xmpp), but it was quite unreliable when I tried it.