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Hello folks,

I have a mini PC which I use to host my website and some lightweight services. The mini PC idles at ~10% cpu usage. I was wondering if I can contribute 90% of CPU to the community. Thinking that maybe I can host other people's websites for free.

How can I do that? Should I host some fediverse software? What do I do with this much processing power?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 42 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Good intentions, but I would be wary of anything not official like foldingathome or boinc (both great projects I recommend)

The reason is other people are horrible, and while your intentions are good, it's significant risk. Lemmy had a csam attack a while ago and I immediately moved my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure, self hosting it means they plow through my door and yank the servers.

Tor nodes, peertube, you open yourself up to that risk

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org -4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure,"

That sounds a bit extreme. You are not hosting csam on purpose. And most likely try to moderate as good as possible.

I actually believe more people should host their own server. And get rid of the cloud. Not moving more to the cloud.

[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are not hosting csam on purpose. And most likely try to moderate as good as possible.

Look up what “strict liability” means in a criminal law context.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I'm willing to take the risk then. I host all my fediverse services at home.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yikes. Good luck to you, noble goals, but there are real consequences for even unknowingly hosting that content.

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