Let's de-Google-ify the Internet FLOSS: Positive Alternatives to Big-Data centralized Services

Big data companies (aka GAFAM) have centralized our services, our data and our digital lives. Over the last two years, the French non-profit organization Framasoft has been demonstrating that FLOSS can be used as an ethical and user-respecting alternative to widespread services such as Dropbox, Skype, Facebook, Google Agenda, or even Minecraft. Time has now come to share this experience so that it can spread into a network of data-friendly and user-respectful service hosters. 2016 is a milestone: Google Apple Facebook Amazon and Microsoft (also known as GAFAM) are now ranked as the 5 largest companies by market capitalization in the USA. Big Data has become more important and powerful than Big Oil or Big Pharma. Web centralization, profiling advertisement, government enablement to carry out mass-surveillance, shrinking diversity and innovation, and even bevahioural hijacking: here are only a few of the numerous issues that arise with these huge centralizede powers Even though a wider a