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aboutDetrace is a small collection of internet services built with privacy in mind. The project exists for people who would rather use independent infrastructure than hand everything over to large platforms and advertising networks. There is no grand corporation behind this. Just servers, software, and people who care about having a little more control over their internet. services
to request access to hosting or email please contact us at join [AT] detrace.org with details about what you're hosting and for what reason you think we should host it. active public services
manifesto(rewritten with local AI Qwen-3b for clarity)
Privacy is not secrecy. Privacy is a human right.
The internet was created to give ordinary people a place to speak,
create, organize, learn, and communicate without asking permission.
Governments have responsibilities, but power should never be assumed to be harmless, simply because it is exercised by an institution. A government capable of surveillance is a government that possesses an amount of power over humans that should not be real. Governments deserve skepticism, limits, transparency, and resistance when it exceeds its purpose.
The same principle applies to corporations.
We should be suspicious of systems that make surveillance invisible, permanent, and normal. We should be suspicious of databases that cannot be meaningfully understood by the people inside them. We should be suspicious when identification becomes mandatory, when anonymity is treated as inherently malicious, and when privacy is portrayed as something that only people with something to hide could possibly want. People need places where they can think incorrectly, speak freely, change their minds, experiment with ideas, communicate with friends, and simply exist without an invisible audience recording the experience. This is not a promise to defeat governments, corporations, or the surveillance economy. A small group can never accomplish that. Running the software ourselves. Owning the infrastructure. Learning how the systems work. Using encryption. Supporting open source. Reducing unnecessary data collection. Choosing independence where independence is possible. Freedom on the internet is not something that can be granted permanently. It has to be maintained. Every generation inherits a network shaped by the decisions of the previous one. We can either accept that every part of our lives should become measurable, searchable, identifiable, and permanent, or we can build things differently. Build quietly. Build independently. Encrypt what deserves to be private. Question systems that demand unquestioned trust. Keep knowledge open. Keep infrastructure under human control. Privacy is not the absence of accountability. It is the existence of boundaries. And boundaries are necessary for freedom.
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