* Ali Reza Hayati <[email protected]> [2020-10-29 20:38]: > We can't pay for even small services such as a VPS or a hosting. My > website is currently hosted by a guy in Germany for free because I can't > pay anyone for hosting.
You may do it with me, no problems. Riseup is good email address, good choice. You can host also your own email, anything. > I really do want to host my own Mastodon or Pixelfed or Peertube > instances but no, I can't because of sanctions and these sanctions are > stupid because they don't affect the government but affects us people. I > can't think of any way that me buying a hosting service can violate U.S. > or world's laws over nuclear weapons. For low consumption, you may share with me. Pleroma is running well on $5 server https://pleroma.gnusocial.club and it has XMPP support too and other features, I think it has SSH access possiiblity too and Mastodon compatibility, and people are very GNU friendly. > Another example is about me myself again. I've been trying to convince > some collectives to run an EteSync instance, a software libre that uses > end-to-end encryption to sync contacts and calendars, because I can't > pay to get an account on etesync.com and nobody will pay $24 a year for > a dude nobody knows. I can help you. Yet the approach I have is not that I should synchronize my programs with remote Internet server. Even if everything is encrypted I am not following principles of doing it remotely. Why? Simply because I have my own computers and storage. I have backups, I keep backup hard drives and do it regularly or irregularly. My contacts are in my centralize PostgreSQL database. By using Emacs I am accessing the database and then deciding which among 195000 contacts should go into my mobile devices. Each mobile device that I can convert to Replicant, I would convert, but I did not buy those phones that can be truly free. I will find them it is matter of time. Motorola phones I have converted to LineageOS to be Google free, spy networks free. There are about 4 device. Then from centralized database I am exporting all contacts, using Emacs Lisp, to vCards. That file with contacts is then imported to all devices by rsync/ssh from time to time. All contacts are thus synchronized. If I have something to share from one device to other, I could simply send to myself encrypted email. Just everybody can establish this flow without using anything special. There is Thunderbird that can handle contacts and there is Evolution that can handle contacts. By the way I can export contacts to Evolution and have fully integrated online email system, but I do not use Evolution on personal computer. User could be using Evolution or Thunderbird only to manage contacts. Not to manage necessarily emails, but contacts only. There is address book feature. And then the contacts can be exported as vCards and synchronized to other devices. Problem comes when I am using specific device and I have met 3-4 people in that day, so usually I put their details in a text note in the device, not in the contact address book. But I could put it in the address book with the note NEW, so that I can later know that these contacts I have to synchronize with the main database, so that same contacts eventually get distributed to other devices. Another solution for you to host Etesync could be to host it on your own computer, including on the Replicant/LineageOS/Android mobile device. Then you could use some of networks such as Tor to open up service to yourself on other devices. You could use IPFS Internet https://ipfs.io -- Jean Louis _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
