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I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.

It's a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

Overview

Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

  • networks: Tor, i2p
  • computing: boinc, foldingathome
  • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
  • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it's open to contributions.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

What's the general thoughts on running a TOR node?

I think an exit node would probably get my (domestic) ISP asking some questions and / or my static IP getting blocklisted quickly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Relay nodes are safe, exit nodes require special care. There's a guide of you're interested. You basically need a dedicated server with a understanding hosting provider and you will be contacted by law enforcement sooner or later. They usually go away after they learn it's a dead end

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Except that relay nodes often get out onto proxy lists.

Which means you now get to solve capchas for absoluty f-ing everything now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I wouldn't run a node unless you know what you are doing.

Instead, install the snowflake browser extension