I came across the FreedomBox project, the video got me hooked was : Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud - YouTube
I know no one really likes long videos, neither do I but this speech was good. But for tldw;
- with a huge effort, Free beat Proprietary in the battle for the server, now most the top tech companies run Linux instead of Windows Server
- Early internet was not conducive to having 24x7 home internet connection, leads to peer to peer internet protocol hosting mostly client/server software
- data-> money mechanisms turn server software companies into surveillance machines, using more resources to track everyone around the whole internet than actually providing services users want
- geeks know how to self host most or all the services big companies offer, and its all free. the amount of storage and bandwidth needed per person, once the tracking is removed, is small enough to easily run on cheap or free (garbage bound) hardware, now having 24x7 internet access.
- FreedomBox is a project to bring user friendly point and click interface so anyone can setup and admin.
Well the projects been going and it hasn’t exactly caught on like wildfire, but it’s still interesting to me. Technically I suppose its similar to yunohost or a homeserver dashboard type thing. I’ve been messing with it a bit and it’s okay, of course it’s not an Apple product when it comes to UI. I don’t have a good internet connection to want to self-host internet available things so that limits a good part of the functionality.