Community-run internet services

I applaud initiatives like this. The only concerns I have are around governance and burnout, but it often takes one person's (or a few people's) energy to get things going before a community can be self-sustaining. Bravo.

folk.zone is a collection of free (both as in speech and beer), community-run internet services. This includes but is not limited to: federated social media, a git forge, a writing platform, a wiki, an IRC server, a pastebin, a link shortener, a bookmarking service, an RSS reader, and more. All self-hosted. All open-source. All run by one person (me) on four machines in my living space.

The name is brief and simple. This is infrastructure for the common folk. Not for enterprise and not for scale. For people who want a home on the internet that isn't surveilled, sold, or enshittified.

I'm taking inspiration from Adam Newbold's brilliant infrastructure project, omg.lol which I adore and suggest you go sign up on it! The idea that you can build a warm, human corner of the web and actually make it worth inhabiting.

folk.zone isn't trying to be omg.lol (I don't have the resources or Adam Newbold's brain for that); but it is trying to be rooted in the IndieWeb and the Fediverse, rougher around the edges, and open about what it is and what it costs to run.

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