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[–]blowininthewind 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (5 children)

first of all, i don't think so. free speech does not constitute really harmful shit like bot speech and such. in case i'm wrong:

if you're hardcore conservative i suggest gab and voat and such.

if you know really really sensitive shit i suggest either don't risk your life or wikileaks, as you should know.

[–]fschmidt[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

gab and voat are intolerably dysfunctional. If I get banned here, I will just increase my efforts to fund a competitor.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You can buy a server for us and have it delivered to my place. It will always be your server. The harddrives will always be mine. The community will always be OURS. You can have the server back whenever you want, with fair warning. You'll have to pay for shipping. Unless I get arrested or die or something serious there will never be any reason why I would change these terms. Eventually we'll have a service worth donating to so perhaps we can buy it back - and maybe buy some 24-bay drive racks for archives and PeerTube if really successful.

My old box, now named "Cassandra" (truthe prophet of doom) on Lubuntu, as server is currently good for testing on and lighter things but nothing heavy - and it's first in our new federation.

It might be nice to have a "server-copy-service" where people deliver a blank harddrive to me, I mirror it, and then send it to them to seed their server. I know it's never that simple, but it might be nice to help speed up the federation with processes more akin to plug-n-play.

[–]fschmidt[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Do you have some decentralized forum software worth considering? I don't think any centralized system is worth my support.

Also, why your home? I run my websites using hosted servers with fast internet connections.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I refuse to do any major centralized system, except MediaWiki. If there was a federated wiki I would seriously consider it. I'm hoping there's a way to rig it or something.

My home server is the testing ground. Also, I have way over 50 terrabytes of stuff I'd eventually like to share somehow. I don't expect any of it to be high volume traffic.

Also, ideally, one idea is to have a "storefront" in the cloud and a warehouse/vault/archive at the "homefront" or "workfront". Cloud space is expensive and they can be fickle. If they kick you off you just relocate quickly and easily. Critically with a cloud storefront you can mask your real location so we can get anon folks to to participate AND remain anonymous. Also importantly, if we can do this with my 12yo old box with 3gb RAM, then anyone can do it, anon or not, with old gear and new. /s/Decentralize4Dummies

Also it's an anon-filter of sorts. The cloud folks should report you if you have illegal stuff (ie. child porn) and are trying to ruin the federation. Otherwise it's their duty to protect your anonymity.

I don't trust the cloud with my data. I want control over my own drives. I'll buy racks and lines if I can raise funds to grow a little server farm or whatever. IMO we should all do this - even if all we do is plug-n-play with a refrigerator sized unit in our attics or basements by the water heater - like any other home appliance.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Actually, Wikipedia and the sister sites all share user aliases and cross-notify somehow, so maybe there already is some kind of federating of sorts going on.