Re: IndieHosters

Great, absolutely! :) Replied off-list.


Who else is working on a fedsocweb project which is looking for (more)
hosting providers? If so, we would love to help you decentralize your user
base. Especially if your project is already packaged for Docker, we can
quite easily add it as a product. First come, first serve! :)


On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Simon Tennant <simon@buddycloud.com> wrote:

> Great idea Michiel.
>
> Standing by to help you add Buddycloud hosting (Docker images:
> https://registry.hub.docker.com/repos/buddycloud/). Just say when ;)
>
> S.
>
> On 10 November 2014 18:32, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote:
>
>> A common problem with federated-social-web products is that there are
>> often not enough people running "nodes".
>>
>> Sometimes the developers of the software offer a "mothership" node which
>> is easy to sign up to, but if 80% of the users are on one "main" node of a
>> federated social network, then this doesn't really help the purpose of
>> decentralization, of course.
>>
>> This is why we (Pierre Ozoux and I) are setting up IndieHosters.
>>
>> We will bridge the gap between these software developers and their
>> potential end users:
>>
>>     https://indiehosters.net/
>>
>> Crowd-funding starting soon! :)
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michiel
>>
>
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