Julian OliverFeb 23

One of the common misnomers around the migration away from toxic tech stacks is that the options are either 1) services managed by a company or 2) everyone #selfhosting themselves.

There is however an often overlooked 3rd option of community-scaled infrastructure. Here a group identifies their needs, plans & deploys to meet them. Much like a community garden, that infrastructure has people skilled & dedicated to its upkeep in providing for that group, working bees & skillshare as needed.

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Show threadJulian OliverFeb 23

Here are some examples of this at work, in this case the Slack alternative Mattermost:

1. Our own instance in DE, used for online training
2. My friend's instance served from under her desk, on which I teach her students in CA
3. An instance in CH hosting thousands of environmental defenders that I deployed
4 An instance we deployed in IS hosting a US immigration support NGO, resistant to ICE warrants

There is no one deployment for all here, each instance meets the unique needs of the group

Show threadAusgelaugter AffeFeb 23
@JulianOliver ❤️ @crew https://pub.solar
pub.solar

You should have control of your data! We host Matrix, Nextcloud, and Mastodon for you to use.

Show threadDoug Webb
@lechimp @JulianOliver @crew love that they combine their IRL meetups with critical mass!
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