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Motivation

The two main goals of this project.

Published on: Jun 6, 2025, 6:10 PM CET Updated on: Jun 6, 2025, 11:30 PM CET

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Thiago

Many people believe they know what the truth is and defend that anything that doesn't conform to that truth should be suppressed. Some of them have difficulty distinguishing the truth from their own interests. When these people have power, we have a problem.

That's why it's important that journalists and bloggers have a tool to create their websites independently of big tech and protected from big brother. To achieve this, we start from the premise that everything on your website must be exportable, modular and not tied to any particular company.

Also, all the preparatory material for your website should be stored on your computer (or wherever you decide to save the exported data) and not in the cloud. Because in the cloud, the data is not yours. You could lose access to it because the product has been discontinued or for any other reason that the big tech offering the service has.

What's more, the authority you criticized — whether as a journalist doing your job or as a citizen expressing your opinion — can pressure big tech companies to hand over your data, delete it, or make it unavailable to you. If you think that this kind of pressure isn't something that happens often, read an excerpt from the Reuters guideline on "dealing with the authorities" 1:

"All original tapes and picture files of sensitive situations that could conceivably end up in court, such as riots or killings, and other material such as audio tapes or notes must be couriered to London immediately for safekeeping. For materials relating to events in the United Kingdom, the tapes and picture files must be shipped to New York."

In addition to promoting independence, another goal of this project is to help people adopt good journalism practices. For instance, labeling the type of content in articles (like opinion, reportage, etc.), citing sources, and adding metadata to articles that allow them to be easily catalogued and contextualized. This is certainly not enough, and we are open to hearing suggestions from the community on how to make the project more consistent with this goal.