I recently set up a probe on a box in my home lab for Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) that does distributed monitoring of access to various Internet services to monitor censorship. It got me thinking there must be other distributed/collaborative things I could contribute to. I know of some others like:

  • BOINC is a grid computing academic research thing where you run a client and donate CPU to crunch academic research data
  • NYC Mesh you can volunteer to run a node for their community wireless mesh network

What are some other do-gooder things you can self host on your home network?

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There’s the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit

    It could act as a list to go off of, if you don’t want to host all of them. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

    Overview

    Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

    ♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
    🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
    ✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
    📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

    This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

    • networks: Tor, i2p
    • computing: boinc, foldingathome
    • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
    • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

    This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.