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Self-Hosting to help a community? (fedia.io)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Recently, I've stumbled on more self-hosting projects that help out different communities/groups/non-profits. Examples:

  • RIPE Atlas Probe
  • Tor Snowflake (or relay)
  • Archive Team Warrior

With a hardware investment:

  • ADS-B Feeder (need SDR)
  • Weather Underground (need weather station)

What else is out there along these lines?

I'm less interested in things like CryptoCurrency nodes or mining (including things like Helium), or very resource-heavy things like Folding@home.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Things like Freenet or ipfs where your node doesn't provide just networking but also storage.

Could be too obvious to mention here but a fediverse instance of some sort, lots of different software you can run besides the usual suspects like Mastodon or Lemmy/Kbin ranging from the more niche microblog platforms like Misskey forks (writing this on a Sharkey instance) to things like Bookwyrm for tracking your reading habits and connecting with other book lovers.

Distributed computing like distributed.net or Folding at Home.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Weather underground is owned by IBM now

Anyone know of a community driven, non-profit weathet platform we can share weather station data with?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Weather underground is owned by IBM now

Boy do they let you know with A 5 SECOND SPLASH SCREEN on Android..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not that I do it myself, but I belive with an SDR dongle you could contribute to both aircraft tracking and naval tracking. Big communities out there for this at least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yup :) Already doing that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Hopefully you're not feeding https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

It was an open community and then the person who ran the server sold it to a corporation for over a million dollars. I believe the community strongly dislikes the person and spun up their own website and server https://globe.airplanes.live/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I was picky about the ones I feed to.. community ones I feed to are adsb.fi, adsb.lol, airplanes.live, plane.watch, opensky-network, and on the commercial side, flight radar 24 and fightaware, both give premium access for feeding, which is nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe the community strongly dislikes the person and spun up their own website and server https://globe.airplanes.live/

Is the adsb.fi site connected to it in any way or are the two separate communities?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Adsb.fi and airplanes.live were once in the same Discord server and worked together for several months rebuilding the community when adsbexchange sold out. I believe the original plan was to create a community where no one person could sell out and rug pull all of the donated data again, but I believe the owner of adsb.fi, Samuli, decided to take his data out of the community and go solo.

I've only heard one side of the story and so it might be biased against Samuli.

I would join his Discord server as well but I've used all of my server slots. It's a bit ridiculous of Discord to limit the servers a person can join, especially those who pay $10 for Discord nitro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feed to https://adsb.fi for this reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I've got nothing against the owner of adsb.fi, but the owner pulled their data out of the community and wanted to go solo... or that's the stories I've heard, which might be biased against the owner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Good to know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yacy.de

Peertube

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Seeding torrents such as linux distros?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you decide to set up an SDR for ADS-B, you might want to consider setting up a WebSDR with something like OpenWebRX. This would let people listen to all the signals in the bandwidth that you set.

If you're interested, receiverbook.de is a list of most WebSDRs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That is neat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Maybe i2p

If you are feeling brave then maybe Invidious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I host wikis for local advocacy work. I plan to host other static sites, and I'm building a tool to get better transit schedules in a simple webpage. Hosting Mobilizon is on my list to do as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Oh man it's been a while, but I used to be super interested in getting an Air Quality Monitor going. There's definitely ones that can seed their data to public databases.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More aimed towards network operators than self hosters, but https://ring.nlnog.net/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Interesting, never heard of this before... more powerful than a looking glass. Neat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Iirc signal has something you can host for the communications of strangers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know you can set up a self-hosted Signal server, but I'm not aware of any relay/proxy type apps

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

No, not a server. You can't even use those with the official App iirc

They mean proxies

Signal even made a blog post about it

Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community