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  • There’s the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit

    It could act as a list to go off of, if you don’t want to host all of them. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

    Overview

    Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

    ♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
    🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
    ✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
    📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

    This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

    • networks: Tor, i2p
    • computing: boinc, foldingathome
    • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
    • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

    This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.







  • I think the important part is about who is running the server, rather than who made the software

    The fediverse is interesting in that context because each instance can decide where they set up the infrastructure or how they process data / requests. The same applies to self hosting

    I saw an article that outlined which country each fediverse platform “originated” from, such as Canada for Pixelfed and Germany for Mastodon. That’s fun to know about, but otherwise not important to users compared to the instances themselves

    At most it might speak to which laws will govern the project itself, but even then someone can fork a project that goes astray