#communityhosting — Public Fediverse posts

Over the last couple of days, out of a mix of curiosity and a desire to do something achievable, I did a major update of the list of community-hosted code forges I started in 2018;

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

Towards the end of the process, I stumbled on this site, which seems to be using some automated method to do the same thing;

https://repos.ecosyste.ms/

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#CodeForges #CommunityHosting

I've started another round of updates to the P2PF wiki directory of code forge instances;

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

The most obvious pattern I've noted so far is a wave of instances and whole software projects. being discontinued since the initial wave of enthusiasm for getting off the now BorgSoft-owned GritHub.

If you know of anything that ought to be listed, especially any code forge software or forge decentralisation projects missing, please let me know.

#CodeForges #CommunityHosting #P2PF

I wonder if there would be any value in a Community Hosting Covenant, which could be applied to server-side software projects? Confirming that it's possible for an independent group to host their own instance of the software, and that it follows the principles laid out in the Franklin Street Statement;

https://www.franklinstreetstatement.org/

... and any other relevant ethical tech principles.

#CommunityHosting

Gancio is a free open source community notice board that can be self-hosted and is part of the Fediverse. You can find out more at:

➡️ https://gancio.org

There is a demo server at https://demo.gancio.org

Gancio can be self-hosted through YunoHost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/gancio or if you're techy there are manual installation instructions at https://gancio.org/install

There's also an official project account to follow at @gancio

#Gancio #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

Mobilizon is a Fediverse-compatible free open source events platform, developed as a libre alternative to Facebook Events. You can find out more at:

🌱 https://mobilizon.org

You can follow the official account at:

🌱 @mobilizon

If you're a techy person there are manual installation instructions for self-hosting at:

🌱 https://docs.mobilizon.org/3.%20System%20administration/install

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FacebookEvents

Need tips on where to apply for funding, for making a guide (book?) on how to make your own community-hosted email commons. It will be mixed with technical writing and ideological stances of a commons.

Challenging the narrative that email is hard to run (and that you shouldn't do it)

I'm part of running an email commons - a community-hosted email service with around 200 email accounts on a small server.

Our goal is to provide an email-infrastructure to the members of the commons; NOT to grow infinitely, and become yet another central service, waiting to be enshittified.

We would like for more email-commons to sprout, and would like to help with that, by making the guide that will be freely accessible

This is not some business-development we need funding for. It's only for developing this guide that could help other communities provide important non-parasitic infrastructure for their local communities.

Do you have ideas on where to apply for funding, please let me know <3

And also feel free to boost!

#email #funding #communityhosting

If you're interested in starting your own Mastodon server or other kinds of online services, you might want to check out my other website:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

I've just revamped the site to feature options for all tech skill levels (including none!). You can follow this account for the site's latest updates:

➡️ @homegrown

Here's an easy-to-understand tutorial from the site about creating your own Mastodon server:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

AdminForge is a German-language website all about self-hosting free open online services:

🌱 https://adminforge.de (in German)

You can follow them at:

🌱 @adminforge (in German)

They also provide a number of libre online services for people who don't want to self-host them.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Deutsch

LiberaForms is free open source software for creating and managing online forms. More info at:

🌱 https://www.liberaforms.org

You can follow their account at:

🌱 @liberaforms

LiberaForms can be self-hosted manually, or you can use the paid managed hosting service provided by the developers.

If you don't want to make your own server, you can sign up for an account on the developers' own server.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #FOSS #Forms

Karrot is a free open source self-hostable platform for organising grassroots community activism. You can find out more at:

🌱 https://codeberg.org/karrot

You can follow the project at:

🌱 @karrot

If you don't want to self-host, there's a public server at:

🌱 https://karrot.world

#SelfHosting #Activism #Grassroots #CommunityHosting #FOSS

"One of the things they [Te Hiku Media] did was build their own cluster, which is kind of like a small data center, instead of using Google and Amazon and whatever other cloud services. It reminded me that there is a lot of stuff that you can do with a small budget."

@timnitGebru, 2025

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timnit-gebru/

#HatTip to @dayvblack for sharing the link.

@zl2tod @keoni

#TeHikuMedia #CommunityHosting

Community hosting is the solution

https://cyrneko.eu/the-hosting-solution.html

#hosting #communityhosting

@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

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