Recently, I’ve stumbled on more self-hosting projects that help out different communities/groups/non-profits. Examples:
- RIPE Atlas Probe
- Tor Snowflake (or relay)
- Archive Team Warrior
With a hardware investment:
- ADS-B Feeder (need SDR)
- Weather Underground (need weather station)
What else is out there along these lines?
I’m less interested in things like CryptoCurrency nodes or mining (including things like Helium), or very resource-heavy things like Folding@home.
Seeding torrents such as linux distros?
Maybe i2p
If you are feeling brave then maybe Invidious
Weather underground is owned by IBM now
Anyone know of a community driven, non-profit weathet platform we can share weather station data with?
Iirc signal has something you can host for the communications of strangers.
I know you can set up a self-hosted Signal server, but I’m not aware of any relay/proxy type apps
I host wikis for local advocacy work. I plan to host other static sites, and I’m building a tool to get better transit schedules in a simple webpage. Hosting Mobilizon is on my list to do as well.
Things like Freenet or ipfs where your node doesn’t provide just networking but also storage.
Could be too obvious to mention here but a fediverse instance of some sort, lots of different software you can run besides the usual suspects like Mastodon or Lemmy/Kbin ranging from the more niche microblog platforms like Misskey forks (writing this on a Sharkey instance) to things like Bookwyrm for tracking your reading habits and connecting with other book lovers.
Distributed computing like distributed.net or Folding at Home.
If you decide to set up an SDR for ADS-B, you might want to consider setting up a WebSDR with something like OpenWebRX. This would let people listen to all the signals in the bandwidth that you set.
If you’re interested, receiverbook.de is a list of most WebSDRs.
That is neat.
Not that I do it myself, but I belive with an SDR dongle you could contribute to both aircraft tracking and naval tracking. Big communities out there for this at least.
yup :) Already doing that.
Hopefully you’re not feeding https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
It was an open community and then the person who ran the server sold it to a corporation for over a million dollars. I believe the community strongly dislikes the person and spun up their own website and server https://globe.airplanes.live/
I was picky about the ones I feed to… community ones I feed to are adsb.fi, adsb.lol, airplanes.live, plane.watch, opensky-network, and on the commercial side, flight radar 24 and fightaware, both give premium access for feeding, which is nice.
I believe the community strongly dislikes the person and spun up their own website and server https://globe.airplanes.live/
Is the adsb.fi site connected to it in any way or are the two separate communities?
Adsb.fi and airplanes.live were once in the same Discord server and worked together for several months rebuilding the community when adsbexchange sold out. I believe the original plan was to create a community where no one person could sell out and rug pull all of the donated data again, but I believe the owner of adsb.fi, Samuli, decided to take his data out of the community and go solo.
I’ve only heard one side of the story and so it might be biased against Samuli.
I would join his Discord server as well but I’ve used all of my server slots. It’s a bit ridiculous of Discord to limit the servers a person can join, especially those who pay $10 for Discord nitro.
Good to know!
Things like Freenet or ipfs where your node doesn’t provide just networking but also storage.
Could be too obvious to mention here but a fediverse instance of some sort, lots of different software you can run besides the usual suspects like Mastodon or Lemmy/Kbin ranging from the more niche microblog platforms like Misskey forks (writing this on a Sharkey instance) to things like Bookwyrm for tracking your reading habits and connecting with other book lovers.
