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About Libervia

Libervia is a all-in-one tool to manage all your communications needs: instant messaging, (micro)blogging, file sharing, photo albums, events, forums, tasks, etc.

What is Libervia?

Libervia (formerly "Salut à Toi") is a Libre communication ecosystem based on XMPP standard. It allows you to do many things such as:

  • instant messaging;
  • (micro)blogging;
  • file sharing;
  • managing photo albums;
  • organizing/managing events;
  • handling tasks;
  • etc.
It features many interfaces (desktop, mobile, web, command line, console), and is multi-platforms.

Motives

The project "Libervia" was born from a need to protect our liberties, our privacy and our independence. It is intended to protect the rights and liberties people have regarding their own private and numeric data, their acquaintance's, and the data they handle; it is also intended to be a human contact point, not substituting itself to physical encounters, but rather facilitating them. Libervia will always fight against all forms of technology control by private interests. The network must belong to everybody, and be a force of expression and freedom for all Humanity.

Social Contract

Towards this end, "Libervia" and those who participate in the project operate on a Social Contract, a commitment to those who use it. This Contract involves the following points:

  • We put the freedom at the top of our priorities: freedom of the people, freedom with her data. To achieve this, "Libervia" is a Libre Software - an essential condition - and its infrastructure also relies on Libre Software, meaning softwares that respect the 4 fundamental rules :
    1. The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
    2. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
    3. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
    4. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. You have the full possibility to install your own version of "Libervia" on your own machine, to verify - and understand - how it works, adapt it to your needs, and share the knowledge with your friends.
  • The information regarding the people belong to them, and we will never have the pretention - and indecency ! - to consider the content that they produce or relay via "Libervia" as our property. As well, we commit ourselves to never make profit from selling any of her personal information.
  • We greatly encourage a general decentralisation. "Libervia" being based on a decentralised protocol (XMPP), it is by nature decentralised. This is essential for a better protection of your information, a better resistance to censorship and hardware or software failures, and to alleviate authoritarian tendencies.
  • By fighting against the attempts at private control and commercial abuses of the network, and trying to remain independent, we are absolutely opposed to any form of advertisement: you will never see any advertisement coming from us
  • The people Equality is essential for us, we refuse any kind of discrimination, being based on geographical location, population category, or any other ground.
  • We will do whatever is possible to fight against any kind of censorship including protecting the speech of victims of harassment, hate speech, threats, humiliation and anything that could lead to self censorship. The network must be a means of expression for everyone.
  • We refuse the mere idea of an absolute authority regarding the decisions taken for "Libervia" and how it works, and the choice of decentralisation and the use of Libre Software allows to reject all hierarchy.
  • The idea of Fraternity is essential. This is why:
    1. we will help the people, whatever their computer literacy is, to the extent of what we can
    2. we will as well commit ourselves to help the accessibility to "Libervia" for all
    3. "Libervia" , XMPP, and the technologies used help facilitate the electronic exchanges, but we strive to focus on real and human exchanges : we will always favor Real on Virtual.

Features

  • Chat with your friends, family or coworkers;
  • Encrypt conversations to protect your privacy;
  • Blog publicly or only with a group of contacts;
  • Share files directly (peer to peer) or store them on your server and access them from anywhere;
  • Share private photos albums with your family;
  • Create and manage events;
  • Organise your day to day life or work with lists.

Interfaces

  • Works natively on desktop;
  • Works on the web;
  • Works natively on mobile devices;
  • Cross-platform;
  • Powerful command-line interface;
  • Highly modular and customisable;
  • Lot of powerful tools and features accompany the project, please check the documentation ​ .

With its easy invitation system, you can smoothly meet your family or friends. It is a perfect fit to share with your loved ones.

Libervia is a Libre software, based on well established standards (XMPP), decentralised and federating. It is developed around strong ethical values. Check our social contract ​ .

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"Salut a Toi" is the name of the association which manages Libervia.