Megan Lynch (she/her)

Question:

I know that I am now reluctant to fill out a Google Form and that includes coming from researchers I trust. It's Google I don't trust with my data.

Do people know of ways to get forms and surveys up for free or a low cost that are based on servers in countries with reasonably low corruption governments? Servers hosted by companies with good ethics and privacy policies?

I just encountered something where they wanted my data and I wanted to give it, but opted not to. #AskFedi

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Show threadnonbinarycoder7h ago
@ml Cryptpad has forms, i use https://cryptpad.fr/form/#
there's other cryptpad instances, cryptpad.fr is hosted in france but you could find one in a different country if you wanted or host your own
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Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)7h ago
@nonbinarycoder Thank you!
Show threadEarthworm 🐌6h ago

@ml @nonbinarycoder

Yeah, the cryptpad forms are great.

Https://Framaforms.fr is also nice!

Show threadEarthworm 🐌6h ago

@ml @nonbinarycoder

Yeah, the cryptpad forms are great.

Https://Framaforms.fr is also nice!

Show threadKellyAnn Romanych (she/her)7h ago
@ml I have heard about LimeSurvey (open source) and have used free version of Survey Monkey in nonprofit work with no issues (at the time)
Show threadJess7h ago
@kellyromanych @ml I had a self-host install of limesurvey for a while for my organisation, and I liked it a lot, similar on feel to survey monkey.
Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)7h ago
@jf Thanks. That's good feedback!
Show threaddoboprobodyne5h ago

@ml
Nextcloud can do forms. Also a heap of other fun stuff. Can be self-hosted (I.E.: free) or one can find fully hosted solutions from €5/mo... https://nextfiles.one/de/sichere-cloud-fuer-privatkunden-und-vereine-29/#preise

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Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)5h ago
@doboprobodyne Thank you.
Show threaddoboprobodyne5h ago

@ml no worries! Did some more digging: there are free providers if you want to have a play. https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/ when you're logged in as the user with administrative control, there's a little app-store with a variety of open-source apps you can run on your server, and one of them is for forms. https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/forms

(But also it's fun to browse all the other apps, some of them are super useful!)

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Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)4h ago
@doboprobodyne At this point I'm not using such a thing, but I wanted to know so I have answers next time a researcher is asking me to participate in research or in feedback or whatever. There are marginalized populations who have an especial need of privacy yet they do want ethical research out there. There have to be better ways of involving people than Google Forms.
Show threadHyzual4h ago
@ml there's also FramaForms by Framasoft that are free : https://framaforms.org/abc/en/
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