Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@cblgh 👀 Having a mesh would be swell actually. I think there was legislation passed recently that made it easier to connect to the internet backbone in Canada.

In general Canadian ISPs are a duoploy and actively engage in anti-competitive legislation to make internet shit for everyone here. 😅

@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space Yeah, TBH for my self hosting needs I can probably get away with just a TB HDD, like 8 GB RAM and whatever mid tier CPU. I kinda started exploring with this Synology NAS and it's been nice enough that I've been wanting to expand my setup. :o

Though again I'd rather just not need to think about servers in the first place.

@cblgh :O Thanks for the tip. I was initially looking at server racks and Intel NUC style devices. I think I'd still need to figure out a custom internet connection which'd give decent outbound. Mine start puking when I do anything more than a megabit or so.

Also been thinking of setting up my own dedicated hardware for self-hosting instead of using Digital Ocean and I think the labor cost + hardware cost for doing that will be even higher than just using Digital Ocean. 😅

I probably play 3x more for self-hosting my own matrix/mastodon/etc than I would for paying someone else to handle all that.

It'd be nice if we didn't need to host _anything_ in order to use information technology. Maybe just for backups.

@MarkusEicher Mutability is still rough around the edges in IPFS. IPNS with pubsub is the most reliable option right now, but you'll likely want to create your own application-specific thing on top of pubsub or some other side-channels. Pinning services also don't have good support for mutable data so it can be a bit painful.

Might also want to look into Earthstar. https://earthstar-project.org/get-started/how-it-works

Biggest pro of IPFS is that the Filecoin Foundation funds small efforts to get you started. 😁

Are there business models out there that aren't just rent-seeking with extra steps? Is getting paid for labor something businesses still do?

@gwil Time to organize more of your information spatially? :o

Once I can get a decent VR setup I've been wanting to migrate to @stardustxr and start storing notes and tabs in spatial corners of my workspace.

Are people that aren't already wealthy actually making money on "tokenomics"? Like, I get the promise of cryptocurrency enabling microtransactions for contributing to either compute or content and people getting paid for that, but is it actually worth it for the average person?

Can a person pay for rent and food from some distributed compute project if they don't already have lots of disposable income?

@the_feral_housewife@hellsite.site Real shit?

@the_feral_housewife@hellsite.site the fabled two genders 😍

@capyloon Yeah! One thing I hope we have time to make is a js-fiddle type interface so you can make tiny web apps and share them along with an edit button. Also we could edit the fiddle from within itself to make it easier for others to iterate 🤯