Comment by cadamsdotcom

Love the idea but it still isn’t easy enough for normies to host a blog or a website.

I think there’s a way though.

Modern self-hosted open source is easy to run for semi-experts, so what if communities banded together to host stuff at the local library?

A bunch of enthusiastic teens could form a volunteer core that runs a bunch of services for their community and teaches anyone interested, giving kids a chance to learn how to host stuff online. There’d be high trust if it’s all locals providing services to locals. Host it on a cheap VPS so the library doesn’t even need infra; just a very small budget for the initiative.

It’d be super decentralized. And the teams running these services would provide high quality feedback to the developers on features & operating of their services.

Seems win-win.