I’m looking for others who could be interested in collaborating on hosting Fediverse platforms and tooling, including Lemmy.
The main incentive for this is to build out infrastructure that is super reliable – highly available, geo-diverse, monitoring, best practices, etc, and to have fun doing it with a group of people rather than solo.
We can help contribute towards the shift that is happening from centralized/corporate-owned to decentralized/non-profit. Some of the biggest barriers for services like Mastodon and Lemmy are related to performance, reliability, confusing onboarding, etc. By grouping up we can help improve on these, innovate on tooling and systems that are service-adjacent, and have fun doing it.
Shoot me a PM if interested!
Edit: thanks for all of the responses! Since posting, many people have responded or reached out directly with interest in getting involved.
We have set up Matrix.org channels. You can join here: https://matrix.to/#/#fedicollective:matrix.org
I’ve set up a Discord server
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Gotta start somewhere! Good for short term collaboration while we spin up matrix
We discussed before to collaborate on a distributed object storage via https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ to reduce duplication and share the load.
Right now Lemmy/pict-rs sadly doesn’t allow using object storage as a kind of CDN, but once it does I would be up for trying it with Garage.
Thanks for the response and interest! Please join the Discord link here: https://discord.gg/Tp9gXSzb
Only temporary, I promise!
Experience shows that temporary measures nearly always become permanent. Just let me know when you have a IRC, XMPP or Matrix channel 😉
Heads up, we’ve created a space on Matrix.org. Here’s the link to enter, if interested! We will be migrating over from Discord https://matrix.to/#/%23fedicollective%3Amatrix.org
Hey OP, you might want to edit your post and include the matrix link instead. Great work on listening to the feedback and moving over to matrix.
Also link you posted is broken, hope this is the right room: https://matrix.to/#/!KIuWdbzrNsRBbAEVtV:matrix.org
Human readable: https://matrix.to/#/#fedicollective:matrix.org
Thanks! Can you add direct aliases to the rooms so that I can join them directly via a XMPP bridge? Right now you can only access the space and that doesn’t work via bridges.
You might be interested to also work with this person’s domain: https://lemmy.world/post/1046078 Putting a similar comment on that thread to point back here.
what do you have in mind?
For the life of me I am unable to send you a PM. I’d be interested in working together. I have a couple Dell PowerEdge r720 servers that are up as long as my internet is. Not sure if you’re to go that route or more dedicated data centers. Either way, I’d be interested in joining the effort!
Any type of required skills you would like in this team?
Ability to digest beans.
