I still don't understand how projects that are strongly focused on open-source and promote the open-source movement have their official support channel or discussion platform set as Discord.
@lcheylus I always have mixed feelings about such things.
While I’m fully into #FOSS and #federated services, I can also see the benefits of major and proprietary solutions from a beginners perspective.
I think it is always about the targeted user base and how to make it comfortable to them.
I can also see this with #BoxyBSD, where I’m targeting beginners who cannot afford virtual machines to learn and practice. However, to help them, you need to catch them at their starting point, which is mostly a well known service like Discord, Twitter etc. Beginners are not aware of the Fediverse, Matrix, IRC and all the other solutions. It won’t provide them or the communities to exclude them.
Moving code away from GitHub may reduce the visibility of projects and potential contributions. Moving support to nerd services may exclude them. Forcing them to deal with it, results in dead useraccoujts in long-term.
Teach them at the beginning, show them alternatives and as soon as they do it by their own will, they will switch and contribute.
I really love free and opensource software, projects and services but it does not mean that we should force people to avoid it. We should more be happy about people that decide to publish and contribute their code to the community in any way and also providing any solution to provide feedback, support etc. Decisions to a specific solution like Discord may have several reasons like not being aware of it, not having the time for it, no personal needs to deal with it (if it works, it works). Not everyone is deeply into FOSS or cares about it.
I always contributed heavily into opensource within the last years and was only on Twitter and never saw the needs for Matrix or Fediverse. I simply didn’t had the time nor the fun to deal with it - nowadays I’m running my own instances.
Currently, #BoxyBSD has #IPv6 networks in DE, CH, DJ and US (East). Which would you prefer and should one of these location get added?
VAE, AUS, JP, CA, PL, SG, ZA could easily be added.
Unfortunately, nothing near India. Trying to have a look for it.
#BoxyBSD is a non-profit VM & service provider for the open-source community with a focus on BSD based Systems like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD. BoxyBSD also provides additional services like webhosting, git, email and DNS solutions for #opensource projects to give valuable things back to the community.
Wow, that was fast. People may remember my idea behind #BoxyBSD? Temporary jails for testing and debugging? It got immediately abused for spamming etc.!
Now, I’m running a friendly beta test within the #BSD Community (primary #BSDCafe & BSD fans) for free small sized hosted #VMs / #Jails (IPv6 only).
The first system is already full. Let’s see how this will be (ab)used?! Maybe, the next stack will start after Easter.
Currently working on my „Free temporary #FreeBSD VM“ service. A service where you can just drop your ssh key and immediately get returned an #IPv6 address of your own instance which will be present for 12 or 24 hours for testing, debugging and playing around.
What is the current state of #BoxyBSD? Everything looks good so far and currently I’m running 50x 512MB RAM free #FreeBSD#Jails (#VMs). It turned out, that this might be too less RAM for several things...
Opt #1: 50x 512MB
Opt #2: 10x 2GB
Opt #3: 4x 2GB, 6x 1GB, 20x 512MB
It will go live on https://boxybsd.gyptazy.ch soon but not more this year due to vacation where I will be on digital detox.