Somewhat recently I learned about tildaverses which if you’re unaware are communities where everyone gets an ssh account on a server to do things like hosts sites or gemini capsules, and access to services like a community IRC server or the ability to host their email there. This kinda got me thinking of community run clouds services with a slightly different approach and I thought I would I would ask Lemmy for their thoughts on how they would build something like that.
My hypothetical thought was something inspired by a tildaverse but a little less technical and a little more utilitarian but still with a community feel to it. Maybe nextcloud? A matrix server? A microblogging platform with activity pub? A blogging platform of some sort? A hosted RSS aggregator? The whole idea being both something that would be a community, but also something that would provide a bunch of your standard services like online notes/word processing, messaging, social media as apposed to hosting it yourself or paying for it with ads or money.
Or maybe you like the idea of a more tildaverse style community with the more classic things like ssh and IRC for the internal community kind of deal? In either case, if you were to build a community like that what would you include and how would you set it up? It’s all just a thought experiment in my case though, I don’t actually intend to set anything up by that, but would just be curious what you all would build and how you would do it if you were to set something up like this?
I’d focus on the management and the philosophy of the community, rather than on the hardware/software.
I feel that we have more than enough technical solutions that are either perfect, or adequate enough. At the same time, as proven by the Linux/FOSS/Open Source movements time and time again, it’s the approach that is wrong.
tl;dr: the problem does not lie in the screwdriver, but in the way it is handled and task it’s been applied to.
I’d go along the lines of tildaverse but with a community area, like nextcloud, matrix and, lemmy. Nextcloud as a gdrive/O365 alternative for users. Matrix as an irc kind of thing. (May have the wrong application for this but an irc aspect too.) And Lemmy as a support/ideas sharing platform
Users choose which type of cloud they are: a towering cumulonimbus, a high but dainty cirrus, etc. then be all cliquey and dis on the other clouds for their inherent characteristics while giving status updates of where they are on the world like “omg I just joined a bunch of rambunctious clouds in Tornado Alley and shredded some double-wides! Those cumulos be wild! On to big sky country of montana hope to just chill out like those lazy cirrus before dumping my load over the pacific!”
