Hello all, I’m relatively new to the realm of self-hosting. Over the past few months, particularly in response to recent events, I’ve been actively advocating for privacy, security, and decentralization. Initially, I began by implementing Nextcloud for my family and friends, and later expanded to include services like Immich, Jellyfin, and more. Recently, I’ve also set up a Tor relay (non-exit to avoid unnecessary attention). I’m looking for suggestions on other projects, tools, or areas to explore that can contribute to enhancing others’ privacy. I appreciate services like a Tor relay because once set up, they can run relatively autonomously. Are there any similar services that others can benefit from without requiring consistent direct input from me? I’ve got a few spare Gigabit lines and ~20TB of free space I can spare for the greater good.
You could do a SearxNG instance https://searx.space/
I can second this. I have SearxNG running in a docker container by itself and it requires no real maintenance of any kind. I do have a cron job that updates the docker container once per day, but it ran for ages on the same version without issues.
Is this a Tor Exit type situation? Where my IP will be flagged with whatever someone is searching? If not this looks incredibly easy to set up!
This is the first I’ve heard searXNG. This is really cool!
Yes agreed I have been looking for a new search engine I was using something like 4get or something but it wanted me to do a captcha every day.
end to end encrypted file sharing server, Send: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/
jitsi conference room server, or matrix chat server.
you could run an Oxen node for the Session onion messenger, or a relay for the SimpleX messenger. these are especially important things we need to reduce decentralized messenger dependence.
PrivateBin (pastebin) instance
As the others have said, a Google (search engine) replacement will have the most “privacy returns”. Take a look at whoogle and searx, or if you can mak them switch to another search engine like duckduckgo
Monero node, i2p instance.
You can run a public SyncThing relay, which will help people with devices that aren’t publicly accessible on the internet connect with each other and synchronize files 😊
The greater good
You can run a monero node, tor relay/bridge, etc.
Already running a monero Node in two locations along with a Tor Relay on the one that allows it :D
Nice :)
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