What are some good self hosted civics projects?
from grumuk@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 06:48
https://lemmy.ml/post/27163437

I recently set up a probe on a box in my home lab for Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) that does distributed monitoring of access to various Internet services to monitor censorship. It got me thinking there must be other distributed/collaborative things I could contribute to. I know of some others like:

What are some other do-gooder things you can self host on your home network?

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JASN_DE@feddit.org on 14 Mar 07:00 next collapse

You could tun a TOR relay.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works on 14 Mar 12:21 collapse

And wind up in prison!

Jk that’s an exit node lol

OminousOrange@lemmy.ca on 14 Mar 07:07 next collapse

I’ve heard of folding@home but haven’t really looked much into it.

otter@lemmy.ca on 14 Mar 07:35 next collapse

There’s the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: 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.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Mar 07:45 collapse

Just be careful running a Tor node and what kind of data could be flowing through your machine… It’s Tor… so some of the data can be pretty fuckin unsavory while other data can be political dissidents who need safety.

koper@feddit.nl on 14 Mar 07:52 collapse

As long as it’s not an exit node, nobody will be able to tell what the traffic is. It’s all encrypted including the metadata.

muelltonne@feddit.org on 14 Mar 12:04 next collapse

Check out wiki.archiveteam.org - they are really good work preserving websites that are going down by scraping them with a network of distributed “warriors”. You can run one on your hardware and contribute to saving the web for the future

jogai_san@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 14:01 next collapse

Seed torrents of annas-archive.org/torrents

ikidd@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 14:20 collapse

Meshtastic node?