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What is Aangat Lahat?

Kamusta! Welcome to Aangat Lahat. In Tagalog, Aangat means "to lift up" or "to rise up" and lahat means "all" so aangat lahat to me can mean either "we should lift each other up" as in mutual aid or "we should all rise up" as in to rebel against oppressive systems like capitalism and governments. It is inspired by riseup.net.

The services under Aangat Lahat is my way of offering some sort of digital mutual aid that provides free online communications to people who want it. Please know that this server is explicitly against capitalism, states, cops, fascists, racists, antisemitism, sexists, harassment, homophobia, transphobia, ableists, and zionists.

Users of this service are not allowed to do the following:

• Promoting fascism, nazism, militarism, copaganda, zionism, state nationalism, antisemitism, or contributing to the discrimination, harassment or harm against any individual or group through forms of discrimination based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, along with issuing statements which are racist, xenophobic, ableist or discriminatory in any other form.
• Sending advertisement or unsolicited messages, spam, junk mail, bulk emails or mailing list emails to persons who have not specifically agreed to be their recipients, or making the recipient address available as a response address for spam sent via a third party, as well as using email for purposes such as “no reply” type of accounts for a business-related purpose.
• Using the services for financial gain, including but not limited to trading and managing sales, commercial projects, enterprises and other profit oriented activities. This includes cryptocurrency related services. (Exceptions can be made for those project that put DIY or mutual support and local solidarity before the concept of capital and personal income)
• Promotion of political candidates. These people have complete control over our lives, and they value business and GDP over our wellbeing so they are not welcome here. You are of course free to discuss politics just don't promote them.
• Abuse of the resources available on this server. This server is a shared with other people, so please be mindful of how much resources you're using.
• Promoting large data set neural nets designed to replace creative labor (e.g. LLMs like ChatGPT, Copilot, LLaMA; so-called "AI art" tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E), due to its appropriation of labor, benefit to capitalists, and environmentally-destructive nature of their creation and use. You are free to discuss them just don't promote their use.
• Uploading illustrated imagery featuring sexualised depictions of people who appear to be underage. Even if there's something saying they are over 18, they should reasonably look like they are over 18. Uploading erotica involving minors is also not allowed.
• Flirting with someone who is under 18.

If you agree and you'd still like an account, please reach out to durian.distro@systemli.org along with a message that says you understand everything on this page. If you're able to afford it and you find this service useful, please consider donating on Ko-fi or Liberapay to sustain the server. (server costs, backup costs, and labor)

For Current Members

If you have an account, you can find the dashboard in this page. From there, you can log in and manage the services that are available to you. If you run into any issues, check out the status page to see if the services are running or contact me on:

• Email: durian.distro@systemli.org
• Mastodon: @durian@ni.hil.ist

For updates and discussions, sign up for the mailinglist.

Services running

Tools

Members have access to various communications and productivity tools. These are running on FreedomBox and Debian under the hood.

• 📮 Email
  • Your own email address with unlimited aliases.
• 🗨️ Jabber
  • Instant messaging with audio/video calls.
• 💽 File sharing
  • Share files like images and videos.
• 📅 Calendar, journals, contacts, and to-do lists
  • You can manage your life and be productive, too.
• 🗞️ RSS reader
  • Follow blogs, podcasts, Mastodon accounts, etc.

Delta Chat

I also provide an email service that's meant to be used with the Delta Chat instant messenger. Unlike the other services, however, anyone can use this anonymously. That means you don't have to contact me to create an account! Just download Delta Chat and tap or scan the QR code on the page. It gives you unlimited, random email addresses and it will only allow you to send encrypted emails. Check it out on chika.aangat.lahat.computer.

Privacy

Summary

A lot of attention has been put towards minimizing the amount of data collected on this server. I make sure that event and access logs are only logged into memory, and that I don't see email subjects when dealing with spam. You're also very much welcome to access this website over Tor or a VPN as well.

Note, however, that a lot of things are not encrypted on this server so I (and, if somehow seized, the US government) have access to the unencrypted data like sent emails, chats, and attachments. Make sure to use encryption as much as you can when you use email (get people to use Mailvelope, Delta Chat, GPGTools, or Thunderbird ) or when using Jabber (clients like Conversations, ChatSecure, Dino, or Gajim come with encryption) or when uploading files (check out Hat.sh or Picocrypt) so that nobody has access to your data. Your information will of course never be viewed unless I'm investigating severe abuse or spam or if it gets into the hands of law enforcement.

Also, consider deleting old data that you no longer need as well if possible. (Thunderbird lets you do this and Delta Chat, too)

Information collected

Email messages

Email messages that are sent and received can be accessed by the administrator. They are not encrypted automatically at rest so the contacts of the email including who it was sent to can be read. I will never look into your emails unless dealing with severe abuse. I encourage you to check out tools like Mailvelope, Delta Chat, GPGTools, or Thunderbird with your contacts to encrypt your messages. Alternatively, I provide a Delta Chat specific server that only allows encrypted connections.

Jabber

Similar to email, Jabber messages aren't encrypted by default. I encourage you to look into Conversations, ChatSecure, Dino, or Gajim when using Jabber with your contacts to encrypt your messages.

Files uploaded

Files uploaded on Nextcloud are encrypted, but the keys can be accessed by the administrator. I encourage you to use Hat.sh or Picocrypt before uploading any sensitive files.

CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contacts) entries

Calendar events, contacts, to-do lists, and journals that you store on Radicale are not encrypted and can be accessed by the administrator.

RSS feeds being followed

The blogs and podcasts that you follow on Tiny Tiny RSS are not encrypted and can be accessed by the administrator.

Temporary IP addresses

IP addresses are logged temporarily in memory to help with debugging and abuse. They are never written to disk, and they're deleted whenever the machine reboots.

Temporary event logs when using the service

The various events created by a member (time and date of login, page visits, number of logins, etc.) are logged temporarily to help with debugging and abuse. They are never written to disk, and they're deleted whenever the machine reboots.

Information not collected

Name, phone number, address, or financial information

Real names, phone numbers, addresses, or financial information is not requested when a member signs up. Only a username is necessary for any member.

Member's system details

There's no browser fingerprinting or logging of operating system information that you're using.

Member's behavior

There are no ads on this website (ew) so there is no behavior tracking technology on this server.

Operated by a human

I'm doing my best to limit the amount of data stored on the server, and I'm continuously vigilant about protecting people's data. I will do my best to prevent anyone from accessing the information on this server. That said, I can make mistakes so some data or metadata may find its way into log files or backups and may not be properly expunged. Please also do your best to delete your data frequently (Thunderbird lets you do this and Delta Chat, too) and also encrypt them as much as you can.

Make sure you back up your data as well! I make no guarantees on the availability of this service, but I'll do my best of course!

Donations

If you find this service useful, please consider making a donation at Ko-fi or Liberapay. Servers are not cheap, and it takes time to maintain it so help me out if you're able to!