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Albient · Wessex · Anno MMXXVI

Somewhere with a name on the door.

Mail, code, chat and files for people leaving the big providers. Run from Wessex, kept in London, copied to Falkenstein, and open for you to read exactly how.

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Seven roads in The flag of Wessex wessex.email The flag of Mercia mercia.email The flag of Northumbria northumbria.email The flag of East Anglia eastanglia.email folc.uk danelaw.uk thegn.uk
The services

Each one hangs its own standard.

Hord hord.albient.com

Your code, on a machine you can name.

Forgejo, with pull requests, a CI that runs on our own runners, a registry for containers and packages, and a treasure-chest of a name.

  • ◆ Push over SSH or HTTPS; sign in with Ward.
  • ◆ Runners are ours, in London, not rented by the minute.
  • ◆ Mirror in from GitHub or Codeberg and keep both.
albient / public
ansible-infra the roles that run this place master
tf-infra Katapult and Hetzner, as code master
forgejo Hord itself, a thin patch on Forgejo master

Our own repositories, public on Hord from the first day. Read how the place is run before you trust it.

Ward ward.albient.com

One name, one key, every door.

Sign in once with a passkey. Your address, your keys, your sessions and your groups, kept in one place you can see.

Post post.albient.com

An address under a kingdom's name.

Mail, calendar and contacts at wessex.email, mercia.email, northumbria.email, eastanglia.email or folc.uk. Every spelling of your name delivers.

Moot moot.albient.com

Rooms for the people you work with.

Matrix, federated with the rest of the world, with rooms that follow your groups and a name that means a meeting.

Leaf leaf.albient.com

A site from a branch.

Push and it is live under your name at a kingdom's domain, or your own. Static, fast, and served from here.

Watch watch.albient.com

What is up, in plain sight.

A status page from day one, written by the machines and annotated by us when something goes wrong.

Keep keep.albient.com
A keep for your passwords.
Chest chest.albient.com
Files, photos and documents, kept safe.
Further off
Mask Anonymous addresses that forward to you Tidings Your feeds, read in one quiet place Seek A search page that keeps nothing about you Parley Calls with nothing to install Scroll Write together, in the moment Rune A snippet that burns after reading Tally Find a time, count the hands
The story

A king in the marshes.

In the winter of 878 Alfred of Wessex had lost nearly everything. The Danes held the towns, the army had scattered, and the king was hiding on an island in the Somerset levels with a few dozen men. The story everyone remembers is the cakes. The one that matters is what he did next.

He did not build a bigger army. He had the law translated into English so people could read what governed them, raised a chain of walled towns so nobody was more than a day's walk from safety, and wrote down how it was all to be kept. That is the spirit we are trying to build in: present without getting in the way, open to inspection, and run from here by people you can write to.

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The charter

Four things, all of them true today.

Kept on this island, and copied to another. London under UK law; a second copy in Falkenstein every night.
Nothing about you kept, so nothing to sell. No record of what you read, send or search, and nobody asking.
Open all the way down, the settings included. Every piece of software is open source; so is our configuration of it, on Hord.
Your key on your mail, if you hand us one. Give us a PGP key and your mail is encrypted at rest with it. We cannot read it.