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.

  • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    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.

        • tyler@fedia.ioOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            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.