The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
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The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
The future is community-hosted
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Every city should host main public web servicies for its citizens, each one as an instance of a complex system, that's how anarchy works.
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Hi! This is what I'm trying to do with tucson.social. Wish the city would get back to me. I don't want to own/operate Tucson.social alone perpetually. Lol.
It would allow me to expand to a lot more community services outside of social media, chat, and Meetup platforms.
There's dozens of us! Dozens!
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That quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons. The city residents pay for it but how do you verify "citizenship"?
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If you mean citizenship as being associated to the city whose hosting services you are using, yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence should be able to do that. Now, if you want that plus anonimity, the only practical option I can think of for a city-wide physical campaign is some sort of GPG Signature Meetup ("signature party").
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yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence
Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills. Renters are usually two levels away from the actual owner. Then there are all the people who live and work in cities but aren't official renters.
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In the USA, most power bills are the tenants' responsibility. In the USA, virtually all internet connections are the tenants' responsibility.
The locality hosting the services could also pass a law requiring the tenants to either bear responsibilities for, or be included in, all utility related billing.
A lot of arguments in this thread seem to be ignoring this as a solution to the legitimate problems they're raising.
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Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills.
In my country it's illegal for the landlord to include utilities in the price.
It's the responsibility of the tenant to subscribe to those services in their name.
It's done to prevent landlords from cutting utilities on a whim or to pressure late payments.
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If every city has the same then why would you even want to?
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It would have to be a national mandate that is available in every city or everyone would use the free service from one city but not vote to raise the taxes in their city to pay for their own.
If it's a national mandate, then might as well make it a national service.
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