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
what do you have in mind?
I prefer working in teams rather than solo - assuming many others do, too!
Getting a core group together to collaborate on hosting, first, and approaching with some structure so that its resilient. In addition to that, identifying areas where we can fill Fediverse gaps or innovate (onboarding processes came to mind initially), but totally up for discussion on what others think could be most beneficial.
I’ve set up a Discord server
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Any type of required skills you would like in this team?
I left skillsets out of my original post because there are many ways for people to contribute beyond sys eng. Generally though - industry experience in tech.
Well I have 12 years of exp as a dev I might be able to help out :) I would love to know more, btw it seems wefwef has no way to send DMs yet it seems?
Glad I read this comment, finally. I just spent 10 minutes trying to work out how to send a DM and assuming it was just me not being used to a new app and missing it.
Thanks for the response and interest! Please join the Discord link here: https://discord.gg/Tp9gXSzb
Be happy to. Been wondering the same thing. I’ve got a public ip’d VPS that I’ve been wanting to use as a single k8s server or docker server, to host Lemmy and PixelFed containers. Also I can’t figure out how to PM you in the Mlem app lol. Can you PM me?
Thanks for the response and interest! Please join the Discord link here: https://discord.gg/Tp9gXSzb
I was thinking of a similar initiative. To be honest, I am dreaming of a future where a network of small no-profits and co-ops can contribute to a large ecosystem of free software.
I have some devops experience but my main occupation has to do with security. I would be very happy to help especially in the security space.
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