welcome to the birdcat cafe!

these are privacy respecting services for your pleasure. do you have any feedback? reach out to us on mastodon.

public services

we host this for you.

• 📖 - fursona.directory: linkstack, a linktree alternative for all of your fuzzy linking needs.
  • you can see a full list of users here.
• 🔍 - search.birdcat.cafe: searxng, a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. users are neither tracked nor profiled. better search results than anything else i use. note: if this instance isn't working well for you, please take a look at the official instance list to find ones that are more performant: https://searx.space/
• 💾 - paste.birdcat.cafe: privatebin, a minimalist pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256bit aes in galois counter mode. tl;dr: super secure pastes.
• 🌎 - translate.birdcat.cafe: simplytranslate, a privacy-respecting frontend for translation through google translate, reverso, iciba, and deepl.
• 📰 - reddit.birdcat.cafe: redlib, an alternative private front-end to reddit
• 🔥 - speed.birdcat.cafe: librespeed, an open source, privacy-respecting speed test.
• 🗞️ - rss.birdcat.cafe: freshrss, an open source rss reader. ask taco for access.
• 📓 - pad.birdcat.cafe: cryptpad, a collaborative, open source, end-to-end encrypted office suite.
• 🧑‍🍳 - chef.birdcat.cafe: cyberchef, a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.
• 📷 - qr.birdcat.cafe - libreqr, a web interface for generating qr codes.
• 🌐 - ip.birdcat.cafe - ifconfig.io, an app that shows you information on your ip address/browser.
• ☕ - chat.birdcat.cafe: element-web, a web-based matrix chat client that links directly to birdcat cafe matrix server, matrix.birdcat.cafe.
  • looking for a list of fuzzy-friendly matrix servers? Flann has a great list at matrix.squirrel.rocks/furry_servers.
• 👀 - uptime.birdcat.cafe: uptime kuma, a self-hosted monitoring tool like "uptime robot". keeps track of sites i like.
• 🧑‍🚀 - birdcat.cafe - grav, which is a flat-file markdown cms.

private services

stuff for me lol

• 📈 umami.birdcat.cafe: umami, a self-hosted privacy-respecting analytics server that doesn't use cookies. helps (just) me see how many people are interested the things i host. you can see the sites i'm tracking here:
  • birdcat.cafe, this place
  • tacowolf.net, my place
  • birdcat.party, that place
  • birdcat.online, my wedside
  • if you don't wish to be tracked, you can block umami.birdcat.cafe in your favorite ad blocker (mine is ublock origin) to opt out.
  • note: none of the services themselves use umami, just the urls listed here.
• 🔴 - live.birdcat.cafe - owncast, a self-hosted livestreaming server.
• 🔒 - vault.birdcat.cafe - vaultwarden, a bitwarden fork written to keep my passwords safe.
• 🎉 - birdcat.party
• ...and more stuff in the background. enjoy! :3

the cafe is brought to you by

• the @taco pays for these services out of his pocket with love foundation 💚
• and viewers like you. thank you!

if you need to contact us via email for any reason, feel free to reach us at contact at birdcat dot cafe. however, nudging taco on matrix or mastodon is probably faster.

services in the cafe use mutant standard emoji, which are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.