You know [BOINC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing), the thing where you can donate your processing power to specific computational projects? Is there anything like that, but for hosting platforms / services? Something where you could say "I am willing to dedicate this much of my CPU, RAM and storage space to this project or this group of people". Say that I have a server that is more or less collecting dust, and I want to make it do something productive. I am aware of YUNOHost and alternatives, but that still requires me to choose which things to deploy and also somehow then offer that to the community. As a certified lazy dude, I would much rather say "here's the computer, use it for whatever you need the most". The issue I see with this is that my goodwill could be abused for hosting something inappropriate or even illegal, and then I would be held responsible. So there should be some transparency requirement or some other mechanism that helps prevents this. And yes, self-hosting would not be the accurate term to describe this kind of distributed resource sharing. "croud-sourced self-hosting"? "crowd-hosting" sounds like a good description for this phenomenon. Some implementation of this probably already exists. Please provide any relevant names or links that would help me find more about this.

There is a decent section dedicated to Fediverse towards the end.

> The new standalone app will be based on Instagram and integrate with **ActivityPub**

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1235039 > https://nextcloud.com/blog/introducing-hub-5-first-to-deliver-self-hosted-ai-powered-digital-workspace/