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**Disroot** is a project based in Amsterdam which is maintained by volunteers and depends on the support of its community.
**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.
We originally created **Disroot** out of personal need, we were looking for software we could use to communicate, share and organize within our circles. Most of the available solutions were missing the key elements that we find important; Our tools should be **open**, **decentralized**, **federated** and **respectful** towards **freedom** and **privacy**.
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 very particular 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.
While searching for such tools, we found some really interesting projects, projects that we believe should be available to anyone who values similar principles. We therefore decided to bundle some applications together and share them with others. This is how **Disroot** got started.
By running **Disroot** we hope to change how people typically interact on the web. We want to encourage people to **break free** of the walled gardens of popular software and turn to open and ethical alternatives, may it be on our platform or on another (or you could even host your own).
**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.
Together we can form a network that is truly independent, focused on the benefit of the people rather than the exploitation thereof.
We are convinced that we can build together a truly independent network, focused on the benefit of the people and not on their exploitation.