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Instead of at home(well, it can be at someones house still), I feel like this could be the domain of local clubs. Groups of interested people can pool money to
by goda90 7y ago
Instead of at home(well, it can be at someones house still), I feel like this could be the domain of local clubs. Groups of interested people can pool money to pay for server hardware(or space in a local datacenter), and a business internet connection. This also adds the effect that at least a core set of users know each other in real life, which can help reduce problems like trolling, illegal content, and spam. Also, their server is local. If they setup a mesh network, then they could still have services if the city somehow becomes disconnected from the larger internet.
- cameronbrown 7y agoWhat's going to convince them to do that, rather than "join the Facebook group"?
- goda90 7y agoMy thought would be that there are probably multiple people interested in the idea of federation or decentralization in most moderately sized cities. If they find each other, then can start from there and spread the word.
- jeffalyanak 7y agoYou don't need many of the enthusiasts who are interested in setting up a community to support a much larger group of people who are only interested in the service.
- mxuribe 7y agoI really like this idea! There could be a mix of people who host their own instance at their home, but still interact with others who "live" on a host managed via some local club (like the homebrew clubs that are springing up again after so many years)...very cool! Cheers!
- vorpalhex 7y agoThis is common in Amateur Radio where several folks pool resources to run repeaters which are often too expensive or complicated for just one person to run and manage.
- masukomi 7y agoVirtual servers are like $5 a month these days and come with free redundancy and all that. Most groups don't host anything that needs to handle large numbers of requests. What situations are you foreseeing that would require multiple people to pool their money (I'm intentionally ignoring 3rd world countries where $5 a month is actually a lot for this discussion).
- mNovak 7y agoDoes federation play nicely with serverless architectures? Seems like a small group or club wouldn't rack up enough traffic to really justify dedicated hardware and upgraded connection. The pay-as-you-go serverless setups seem well suited for this. Or does it defeat the purpose to centralize the hosting? ..at least AWS doesn't claim ownership of the hosted data.