And you @mallardshead are eligible for free service since you're stacked more than 50K sats on Stacker News!

Re: hours per month of support: as many as you need.

The flexibility comes from, in part, being able to leave. If you don't like our "Nextcloud" do Nextcloud on your own. FOSS gives you that flexibility. If you want customization, Federated isn't the right solution for using FOSS. However, we do include PowerDNS and Traefik in the stack, so you've able to combine Federated Core with lots of additional services run/managed elsewhere.

BTW: a $5 Linode VM would definitely not be able to run all the software included and with the support, the backups, the monitoring for threats, upgrades. Many are not capable of installing and managing Jitsi, just to mention one example, or to optimize it so that it works reliably. Others won't be able to start with step one on that $5 Linode VM. What then for them?

Best wishes.

Do you really want us to list out the repos for Nextcloud, Jitsi, Matrix, etc? That's how you run your own Federated Computer.

Re: "private data". If you're a pilot, you can fly a plane. If you're a sys admin, you can run a server. If you're not a pilot, you will kill yourself in a plane. If you're not a sys admin, you will lose your private data. I'm happy to offer examples. Here, again, is the one offered in today's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudron/comments/tdsg3t/i_have_been_hacked_but_do_not_know_how_to_fix_it/

You have clearly earned your right to self-sovereignty and self-reliance. Most others aren't so lucky. You do a disservice to them but suggesting if they are NOT a sys admin, well, then what? Just use the Google? What's the solution?

Best wishes.

Thanks. https://www.federated.computer/stackernews/ Please reach out if you have any questions.

How do you know you're using "open source" when you use Stacker News? You can see the project on Github, but, by your own argument, you can not inspect what is running here on "someone else's computer" where https://stacker.news is the "service provider". Stacker News is "not" open source.

You may inspect the open source projects for every part of Federated Computer. You trust Federated Computer to run those projects for you on a computer.

Best wishes. BTW: you're eligible for free service. Congratulations for stacking more than 50K sats!

It's up to the user to configure. If the user doesn't configure the domain correctly, email doesn't work. That's not the way Federated works. Everything works from the very beginning without the user having to configure anything. Different approaches. Different types of customers.

If you don't like the Federated Service, because it is all open source (Nextcloud, Jitsi, Element, Matrix, Vaultwarden, Wireguard, Caddy, etc etc et) you can move to another open source provider...even yourself.

There is a cost for running a server. Your time (how do you value that?) or the service from another provider, etc.

Cloudron is a great service. It's like Umbrel (another great service) in the cloud.

Confused, however, about the github point. Does Cloudron open source it's software? Or just the open source packages it offers?

You're now eligible for service! :)

You're eligible for free service, @siggy47 ;)

You can pay in bitcoin.

That's true. But it is also all your work. There has to be a way to offer sovereignty and convenience. Is it true that all of your data is on your server? If so, many regards. But if there is some "Google" in your life, Federated Computer offers a better, convenient approach. You get the convenience of SaaS on top of all open-source solutions. That seems to me a step forward. Best.

Start9 is a diffferent approach. Most people do not want to run a server. I'm also confused about your mention of price. If you buy a $1000 server from someone else, that's more than 2 years of Federated and you don't have to play systems admin or devops person

Regarding open source. We haven't yet open sourced our control plane, and we will, but every part of the solution is open source: nextcloud, jitsi, matrix, vaultwarden, wireguard, listmonk, baserow, etc. Our control software is still in active development. The founding team at Federated Computer were behind the open-sourcing of some very significant tools in the past such as node.js, smartOS, manta. We will open source when we can best be of service to the community. Meanwhile, for customers that need a solution, it is an open-source solution because, if they want to, as you say, host it themselves to be truly "self sovereign", every one of the parts is open source and free.

Federated Computer was founded in 2021. I don't know about Fedimint.

Best.

Included as part of Nextcloud/Collabora.

Yes, everything you say is true. And you're responsible for running that system. Most folks don't want that. It's OK to offer a convenience. BTW, are you running your own email today? Are you running your own Jitsi today? Etc. If not, why not? That's the value offered by Federated.

We use macaroons to give us access to the parts of the system required to keep the software up-to-date.

I have been using GrapheneOS for nearly two years as my daily driver. Great work. Works great with Federated Computer, too.

https://federated.computer. It's your own server. 100% private. From the same people who invented node.js.

Encrypted email is a scam. Unless you only email with other encrypted email providers... Most of the time, we don't.

The better solution, for security, is to use an email provider that is not centralized so that no outside authority can demand metadata and mail.

Agree. https://federated.computer.

We offer this as a service at Federated Computer (https://federated.computer). Includes a bunch more, 100% private.