Positive vision for alternative infrastructure
"Movement Hosting in 2030"
Positive developments in recent Years
Highlights
- We're still here
- More open source software available for running autonomous services
- There are more feminist conversations happening in this space
- There is some funding for non profit technology
- There is more consciousness about the harms of coporate technology
Nextcloud is much better for file sharing (not talkin about collaborative document editing)
UX has improved.
More people has improved.
Mattermost is good.
TLS encryption is everywhere now with LetsEncrypt.
Weve built up more email deliverability expertise.
Tor browser and Orbot has gotten better.
CalyxOS for android.
Lots of VPN options.
Signal uptake is on the rise.
Jitsi and Big Blue Button video conferencing options.
Platform coops.
Gitlab as an alternative to Github
Familiarity with Wordpress as website CMS.
Some funders are beginning to understand the concept infrastructure
Linux desktop has become more usable and more widely used
Vision for 2030
Highlights
- Well researched functioning sustainable models for capacity bulding (mentorship) for emerging and existing autonomous infrastructure providers.
- Easier interoperability and data portability between providers
- Appropriate sized DevOps tooling for smaller teams
- More funding
- Make computing fun again, bring the joy back to online services for new users
Low bandwidth solutions
More providers in the global majority world
Solid alternative institutions to provide bare metal hardware
More collaboration with movement hosting providers and groups working on community networks
Cultural change of valuing local technology
Consider human and environmental load of infrastructure
Pushback on the expections of 100% 24/7 uptime
Valuing pro social services over high availability services
More publicly funded infrastructure?
Valuing publicly accountable infrastructure
More diverse and equitable in system adminstration
Better security
Wide adoption of open standards
Funding for civil society and autonomous infrastructure to participate in standards making bodies
More decentralization, offline first
Good CRM solution
People off of Google Docs
Easier to share computing resources