Disroot

Disroot is an Amsterdam-based collective offering donation-funded email alongside a full suite of federated, privacy-respecting services for anyone who wants out of corporate platforms. Founded in 2015 by volunteers Muppeth and Antilopa, it bundles mail with cloud storage (Nextcloud), XMPP chat, collaborative pads, CryptPad, paste bin, file upload, Git hosting, and more on a single account.

Every service runs on 100% free and open-source software that users and outside developers can audit, fork, or self-host. The email service supports IMAP, SMTP, and standard webmail with Rainloop, and sensitive tools like CryptPad, Upload, and the paste bin use end-to-end encryption so Disroot administrators themselves cannot read the content.

Key features:

• Donation-based funding with no ads, no tracking, and no data mining.
• Encrypted storage options on Nextcloud, CryptPad, Upload, and Paste Bin.
• Federated protocols including XMPP, Matrix bridging, and ActivityPub.
• One login for a dozen services spanning mail, chat, files, and collaboration.
• Fully open-source stack auditable by the community, hosted transparently.

Disroot is based in Amsterdam and hosts its infrastructure in the Netherlands under strict GDPR protection and Dutch privacy law. The project openly publishes its terms, finances, and admin team, and a Tor onion address is available for users who need anonymity at the network layer.

Ideal for activists, educators, collectives, and individuals aligned with decentralisation and free-software principles over the convenience of Big Tech.