I've been toying with a project idea as of lately. Despite working in information security I'll never be 'cool' - I'm not a malware analyst, my threat intelligence skillset is highly limited, I won't ever produce amazing security tools like other people. I've accepted that.
But, what I can do: Support others at doing all of these things. I know what hassle it can be to want to get a website for your cool projects up and running, but not really knowing where to start, and how.
Or being in the position of not being able to afford reasonable hosting that's not a horrible freemium-hoster that sells your data and bombards your readers with ads (Yes, I am indeed looking at you Medium).
I thought to myself to offer people sort of a one-stop-shop for basic Internet needs. Shell-access to run tools, mail-account with a domain that's not GMX, live.com or something like that and the ability to host their blog, journal, website and so on. Free of charge.
Concept-wise it would be similar to the Tildeverse, with the difference being that I would try to help out folks with setting up whatever they have issues with & with the offering specifically targeted at, but not limited to, groups that are otherwise often at a disadvantage (for example beginners, young people, groups that suffer discrimination).
I've not yet fully sketched out everything, but I wanted to hear what people think. My reach within the Fediverse is highly limited, so I would much appreciate any boosts and / or feedback. So I can find out if this would actually be useful to anyone. :)
@gmmi
I think some of the people work and in-between stuff is exactly what people need while hosting
And then try and align as much stuff with all the other things that grow from that... slowly level up / people 'accidentality' find their own affinity.
Give people a menu for setting up something and also making it portable / easy to exit if they wish to go elsewhere and without much discomfort.
Having someone hold hand and even being allowed to ask stupid questions really goes a lot quicker sometimes in improving things or getting ideas open, more than people just not doing things or doing it badly. Just asking and get on with it!
So if you're comfortable then I think you can really process and complete people's life...
I think I would look at some of your options and even act as a more of a beginner if you like, as a kind of test conversation theoretically or practically also in testing. For example if I wanted to move an existing blog or yeah consider how I'm doing stuff... maybe move operating systems totally and get regular step by steps by installing onto another machine / usb key or LiveCD or something...
