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We are extremely happy to tell you we start the year with amazing news. Thanks to your generosity we have managed to close the financial goal for 2025 🎉. We would like to thank you all and we wish the new year to follow the trend we saw in December throughout each month! We are looking forward to the lots of work awaiting this year on Disroot, but with such awesome motivation we can't wait to dive in. Once again thank you all!

Just check how awesome the graph looks like for December on our donation page. Congrats everyone!

We wish you all amazing new year and all your new years resolutions to last longer then a week or two!

To kick 2026, we have decided to launch a new service many of you have been requesting for years. Vault - end to end encrypted zero-knowledge password, secret and note service powered by VaultWarden. We hope you enjoy starting the year by finding a safe space for all your passwords.

Have a good one! Stay awesome!

Happy solstice and happy new year everyone 🎉

As we are entering the last weeks of the 2025 we wanted to wish you all the best in upcoming 2026 as well as amazing end year celebrations! We wish you all and ourself another 10 years of open source and ethical alternatives to corporate internet. And the next year to be as fruitful and joyful as we hope it will.

Read full post at: https://disroot.org/blog/disnews-25.12

As you probably noticed if you tried to use our Lemmy instance, we have had some issues with stability. It was mainly due to underwhelming database configuration and very modest amount of resounces given to the database server. We did some tweaks and things should be working a bit better now.

Additionally we have slap new frontend while toying with lemmy today. It's called photon and looks awesome. Definitely a keeper but we need to use it a bit more to see if things work proper. That said, if you love the old looks we will provide old UI under different URL. Let us know what url (lemmy.disroot.org? lemmyui.disroot.org? something else?

When Disroot began to take shape back in 2015, the world seemed to be heading in a different direction. People were talking about climate agreements, building alternatives... and riding that same wave — almost as a necessary reaction — Disroot was born: our modest but determined attempt to offer digital tools that do not sell our privacy, freedom and choice to the highest bidder. Now 10 years in and looks like the world has gone on the downward spiral. Privacy seems to be a term of the past. Sponsored content, digital exhibitionism and glorification of fame is the new standard. Short content format has taken over the world. AI slop is slowly taking over the internet. While all this is happening, there is still hope. There are still ton of people working endlessly to create another horizon of possibilities, coding, testing and hosting alternatives that tries to distant itself from the corporate internet most of the world uses on daily basis. We are happy to be a part of that movement and would like to celebrate with all of you briefly reviewing some of the most important milestones on this journey that began ten years ago.

Hi there, In the times of short attention span content, flashy and heavy websites, I was wondering if people would be interested in some of the lightweight, text based web services here on disroot. Something like gemini/html capsule/blog posting or writefreely so it's also federated, a bbs, tilde or other service.

What are your thoughts on this?

We were thinking about it some time ago, and now that a user came up with a proposal as well we thought why not. The idea is to add possibility to use username@disr.it along side your username@disroot.org JID for XMPP (just like email). We could implement it in two ways:

1. as alias - Using same roster but possibility to connect/be contacted with two additional addresses
2. as new account - Seperate account meaning clean roster, avatar etc. just using same credentials to login

Which one would you prefer?

(for reference original user's suggestion - https://git.disroot.org/Disroot/Disroot-Project/issues/1212 )

It is time to move to the next phase of Lacre testing. Our end-to-end solution to incoming E-mail encryption is ready to be tested on a broader scale. For the past weeks we have been running Lacre on the Disroot email server to check some nasty bugs and edge cases before more people start using it. With just a handful of uploaded keys from brave early birds we managed to find some little annoying issues and to take care of those.

Happy solstice everyone!

We wish you a warm, bright, and happy solstice. Whether it is the longest or the shortest night of the year for you, we hope you make the best out of it and enjoy this astronomical event and celebration of seasonal change.

Just testing image upload.

I'm starting to think about diversifying my energy prodution. I have a solar panel array (5kWp) on the roof for a year now. I see that adding more panels does not make much sense as the production in summer as is is already hard to consume it all, and in winter the production is rather symbolic while consumption is through the roof.

So I thought of looking into wind turbines. There is plenty of wind the whole year where I live. But, rather then buying a big 5kW turbine which is quite expensive on its own (plus a pole and all the other stuff) I thought, how about using multiple small turbines (up to 1kW) connected together, similar to how solar panels are. Either into one inverter or using microinverters. Does anyone have any interesting links to follow or some experience in similar setups?