#communityhosting — Public Fediverse posts

@d1 @jadehopepunk @coopcloud thanks all for writing back :)

Oh this is interesting @goblin @mox

From a Quick Look around …

Kolicloud is a web-based tool for digital collaboration and combines different tools in a common dashboard.

Has similar community hosting goals to us.

From the KolliCloud repo..

“The KolliCloud is a free service provided by Local-IT e.V. (LIT) in collaboration with the coopcloud-community. It is a collection of software tools specifically designed for small to medium-sized clubs, associations, and NGOs to facilitate digital collaboration.”

There are three options for using the KolliCloud:

Self-hosting
Managed Hosting
Collective Hosting
You can find more information on our website(https://kollicloud.de/hosting/).

This repository mainly contains references to other repositories. This is because the setup of the KolliCloud is based on abra from the coop-Cloud and our own Meta-Configuration tool, alakazam.

https://git.local-it.org/local-it/kollicloud

Looking at Alakazam.. seems to offer that meta config layer that can I was mentioning…

“Alakazam serves as a wrapper for Abra to make it easier to manage configurations across multiple instances. The global configuration for all KolliClouds can be regulated via alakazam, even if this can of course be adjusted in more detail per customer.

An example: Help, i.e. the link to the KolliCloud Wiki, is available in all KolliClouds on the dashboard. This is stored in the alaka defaults. If the link were to change, this would only have to be changed in the one alaka-defaults file and not in every authentic recipe for every KolliCloud.”

ref: https://wiki.local-it.cloud/s/kollicloud-wiki/doc/alakazam-2KkXj4zqH0?q=Ala

And here’s the underlying git repo:

“Alakazam is a meta-configuration app-connector and an abra wrapper, designed as a proof-of-concept to simplify the management of environment configuration files across multiple instances.”

https://git.coopcloud.tech/moritz/alakazam

All very interesting!!

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #CollectiveHosting #CoopCloud #Homelab #DevOps

We’re currently doing testing of different self hosting platforms that can be used by community groups to manage their own day for documents and a range of apps.

Specifically we’re looking into platforms that are

1. open source and actively maintained
2. Preferably supports the use of docker
3. Has its own easy-install marketplace (sasy tk upgrade also)
4. Critically includes Single Sogn on suppprt.. so team members can use ONE login across all apps in the platform
5. Nice interface, easy, powerful

Shout out if u have any suggestions.

We’ve tried going full kubernetes but the bar is too high to take our whole team on the journey at this stage.

Also keen not to reinvent the wheel and get behind a good existing project.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Homelab #CommunityLab #DigitalJustice

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

This article by @parisba is why #CommunityHosting and #SelfHosting need to be normalised. They are the only way we can stop scenarios like this happening:

📰 https://hey.paris/posts/appleid

You might think this couldn't happen to you, but it could happen to anyone. It's especially scary as most big tech companies are in repressive countries.

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to make your own online services. I've done a guide for non-technical people at https://growyourown.services

#Activism

RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/109393393007942049

I missed the anniversary of starting https://fantastic.earth this weekend! Three years and going strong.

We started with #Mastodon, and now we are offering multiple hosted services: https://stic.earth. Ask an existing member for an invite.

#communityHosting

@samuel same, my local community radio https://radionordsalten.no/ needs a place to publish podcast interviews of old folks who were part of the resistance during WW2.

I'd like for our upcoming data coop in norway to host castopod, but it depends on whether the other members agree.

#fediAsk #dataCoop #dataCollective #communityHosting

Any interest for this in @datacoop or @ukrudt or @konstellationen ?

One of the problems with the Web 2.0 monolith pattern (server + web client) is that it makes community-hosting of services seem much more resource-intensive than it needs to be.

How much of the server resources used by a standard Matrix homeserver install, for example, is used by the Element web client? How much cheaper would it be to run a headless Matrix server, and use native Matrix apps on whatever devices you use?

EDIT: Or a headless AP server + native apps?

#CommunityHosting #monolith

Has anyone tried to use the AGPL-licensed code published by Minds.com to stand up their own community-hosted service? If that works, we'll add it to fediverse.party;

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/277

On the face of it, this would give you access to both ActivityPub and Matrix networks, under one set of login credentials. Not sure what moving parts are involved, what the resource usage would be, or whether the code in their repo is sufficient;

https://gitlab.com/minds

#Minds #CommunityHosting

@ottman

@xurxia Xusto tiña pendente de leer este artigo que tamén fala un pouco do mesmo: crear servizos comunitarios para non depender das grandes empresas: https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

#CommunityHosting #Ops

A small group of us are working on community level hosting of 'self-hosted' FOSS tools (think #NextCloud and more) setup as a local service offering for local grassroots organisations. We're seeking advice/tips/guidance.

We're keen to do some orchastration but want to avoid the complexity of say Kubernetes.

As a start we were looking at Ansible with Docker Swarm but we're now exploring other alternatives.

Anyone have experience at this sort of hobbist just a bit bigger than #HomeLab Ops scale?

#Pyinfra is being considered as an Ansible, in the projects words "Think ansible but Python instead of YAML, and a lot faster." (https://pyinfra.com)

Anyone have experience at this homelab/small hosting level? Would love any tips/suggestions for tools/approaches.

One source of inspiration is the 12Factor app methodology: https://12factor.net

Personally, as a rubyist I'm always keen to know what the ruby community is doing in this space also.

Haven't seen many others doing work at this scale, lets use the tag #CommunityHosting to keep connected :)

@digital_justice_society

cc: @jadehopepunk @ryan @gilbert @bounding_star @steph @moxvallix @organvoid @teq

#CommunityHosting #Python #DevOps #ruby #RubyOnRails #SelfHosting #Orchastration #FOSS #OpenTofu #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

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Reliability of hosting makes people more hesitant to do more than dabble in a new service, which does limit adoption. If we can solve that, we've got something to offer that's more useful to people than proprietary services. Ways to do that could include building community institutions that make hosting more sustainable, or by making accounts and data less dependent on SPoF hosts, or both.

#CommunityHosting

"...the goal is that [BandWagon.fm] is maybe the hub of a network of servers. Maybe this is the first server people come to, set up all their stuff, and then use it to port out eventually to the server they want to be on. All those servers out there in the network, they could easily be run by small labels, or co-ops, or community organisations."

@benpate, lead developer of Emissary and BandWagon, 2025

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lorenzosmusic/episodes/Ben-Pate-of-Bandwagon-fm---Crafting-a-New-Site-for-Musicians-e31vrl7

#CommunityHosting #BandWagon

@LaurensHof
> Turtleisland.social is a Mastodon server for the North American Native/Indigenous community. They have set up their own PDS server for community members to join Bluesky as well

Hey this is a cool example of community-hosting. One of the goals of Bridge Seat Co-op is to support Māori to host more of their own online services, to help protect their data sovereignty.

#CommunityHosting #DataSovereignty

OMG I just remembered the BBS craze. Which happened in the decade or so between my childhood computers (Commodore 64), and owning my first PC, so I didn't get to participate. By the time I got back into computers, net connections, email and the web were a thing.

But the BBS is one aspect of the future we need to build. A community-hosted server, offering members a range of services, connected to others via an open digital network.

#BBS #CommunityHosting

#TIL about #PikAPods;

"Instant Open Source App Hosting
Run the finest Open Source web apps from just $1.20/month."

https://www.pikapods.com/

I can't endorse this company's services without at least trying them, so keep your grain of salt handy. But I like the concept.

#hosting #CommunityHosting

Very disappointing to hear Stewart and Campbell hocking commercial VPN services in the middle of their podcast;

https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/365-trump-s-mafia-world-order

In 2025, for anything other than tunneling under Great Firewall style net restrictions, commercial VPNs are a con;

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/technology/personaltech/are-vpns-worth-it.html

If you really need a VPN you're better to use a community-hosted one run by someone you know and trust;

https://blog.ishosting.com/en/self-hosted-vpn-setup

#VPN #CommunityHosting

Hey fediverse admins, what would you recommend as the best way to ge people up to speed on how to run a herd of fediverse servers? Imagine these are "computer people" with intermediate or even advanced tech knowledge/ skills, but no prior experience with hosting servers.

#fediverse #FediverseAdmin #ServerAdmin #CommunityHosting

While you're waiting for GitHub to stop being broken, you might want to check out a self-hosting alternative called @forgejo at:

➡️ https://forgejo.org

Alternatively, if you just want a Forgejo instance to sign up on, check out @Codeberg at:

➡️ https://codeberg.org

Forgejo is free open source software, and is a community-run hard fork of Gitea.

#GitHub #GitHubDown #CodeForges #Dev #SoftwareDevelopment #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

Are you interested in running your own social media server, online service or website, but you haven't actually done it yet?

If so, what is the single biggest barrier for you?

#GrowYourOwn #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #ManagedHosting

#SelfHosting / #CommunityHosting / #ManagedHosting picks of the day:

➡️ @fedihost - PeerTube & Mastodon managed hosting

➡️ @mastohost - Mastodon managed hosting

➡️ @snikket_im - XMPP/Jabber managed hosting

➡️ @Cloud68 - Managed hosting for very wide range of FOSS services

➡️ @homegrown - Advising non-techy people on hosting their own online services

➡️ @adminforge - German-language site advising on self-hosting

➡️ @jellyfin - Host your own Netflix/Spotify-style streaming service

🧵 1/7

I've written a "Beginner's Guide to creating and using your own domain name", which is aimed at non-technical people who are buying their first domain for use on their own site:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/a-beginners-guide-to-creating-and-using-your-own-domain-name

It tries to cover all the basics and things that might trip you up.

Would appreciate all and any kind of feedback, corrections etc.

#GrowYourOwn #SelfHosting #ManagedHosting #CommunityHosting #Fediverse

Along the same lines, how do we get the audio and video embedded in AudioCulture.co.nz into something community-hosted, rather than on SpewTube and SoundLoud, and get AudioCulture to embed that instead?

#AudioCulture #CommunityHosting

After a long break, I just started updating the list of community-hosted code forges here;

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances

... as well as the brief intro to forge decentralisation projects at the top. If you have a P2PF wiki account, feel free to contribute. Otherwise, feel free to hit me up here with things that need updating.

#CommunityHosting #CodeForges #ForgeFederation

#SelfHosting & #CommunityHosting picks of the day:

(All of these are FOSS and self-hostable)

➡️ @nextcloud - Host your own personal cloud, with lots of built-in services/apps you can install

➡️ @yunohost - Linux distro which lets you install self-hosting services through a graphic interface

➡️ @freedomboxfndn - Version of Linux designed to make self-hosting services easier

➡️ @homegrown - Site helping non-technical people use managed hosting to run their own online services

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It would be handy if there was a @matrix homeserver package that could handle multiple domains, like @takahe does for ActivityPub. That way many small groups could give their members matrix accounts using their own domain names, while sharing the work and expenses of running a single homeserver.

#matrix #Takahē #CommunityHosting #ActivityPub

Are you keen to learn how to self-host your own internet services, like instances of Mastodon or other fediverse software, and gain the skills to help with community-hosting projects? Intimidated by the risks of services you depend on falling over at inconvenient times or losing your data? It's much less anxiety-inducing to learn the basics by hosting instances of web apps, like Searx, Nitter, Bibliogram, or Invidious. Tools for viewing data stored elsewhere.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

@brashley46
There may not always be gratis instances. Any that do exist depend on maintainers continuing to provide gratis labour and pay housing costs. Hosting your own makes you that maintainer; many people don't have the skills, time, and funds required to do that. All this also depends on continuing development (or at least maintenance) of the hosted software. Community-hosting is a way of ensuring the sustainability of both the services and the underlying software.

#CommunityHosting

There is nothing in any Fediverse platform's software code that forces it to be for-profit.

Fediverse servers are totally independent and can easily be set up to serve a community or non-profit organisation.

For example, a co-operative could set up its own server and run it just like anything else the co-op does. Votes could be taken on what rules to have, who should be moderating, which other servers to federate with etc.

The technical and financial barriers to ownership of a Fediverse server are surprisingly low, especially if you use a managed hosting service where the hosting company handles the technical stuff.

The price of a managed hosting server starts from about 6 euros per month. The price per month goes up the more users are on the server, but the price per user goes down steeply as a server grows. At the largest server size, the cost per user is only a few cents per user per month.

#Fediverse #CommunityHosting

If we want to mainstream decentralized online services, we need ways to separate the work of running a service node (eg a fediverse instance) from running the hosting infrastructure ("the server"). The founders of Sandstorm were on the right track. Maybe what they were missing was platform co-op structures to run the underlying hosting and make sure they at least cover their upstream costs?

#CommunityHosting #PlatformCooperatives #Sandstorm

LiberaForms is a free open source online form system. You can follow at:

➡️ @liberaforms

The project's website is at https://liberaforms.org

LiberaForms.org offers form services from their own website, or you can self-host the software if you prefer.

#LiberaForms #LiberaForm #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Form #Forms

"Thus saying 'People don’t want to run their own servers' is akin to saying 'People don’t want to start their own YouTube channel'. Both sentences contain the same amount of statistical bullshit."

https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html

- #AndréStaltz said this in 2022, in reaction to the #MoxieMarlinspike piece on 'Web3 First Impressions':

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

#CommunityHosting #Web3

"Thus saying 'People don’t want to run their own servers' is akin to saying 'People don’t want to start their own YouTube channel'. Both sentences contain the same amount of statistical bullshit."

https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html

- #AndréStaltz said this in 2022, in reaction to the #MoxieMarlinspike piece on 'Web3 First Impressions':

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

#CommunityHosting #Web3

You host a service? #EFF has some recommendations for you.
https://www.eff.org/wp/osp
#communityhosting #selfhosting #librehosters #mastoadmin

You host a service? #EFF has some recommendations for you.
https://www.eff.org/wp/osp
#communityhosting #selfhosting #librehosters #mastoadmin

Free aliases are a nice idea if your mail-hoster does not support this feature. It has to be a trustworthy server of course. #selfhosted #communityhosting #librehosters

https://c0x0.com/

Our friends at #poddery raised nearly half of the needed #funding to keep their #diaspora pod running. They also host a public #Matrix Server. #librehosters #communityhosting https://poddery.com/

This is one of the best articles I've ever read on the topic of #DigitalColonialism

Digital colonialism is threatening the Global South

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/digital-colonialism-threatening-global-south-190129140828809.html

#FreedomBox #Mastodon #Swecha #FreeBasics #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting