I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.

It’s a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

Overview

Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

  • networks: Tor, i2p
  • computing: boinc, foldingathome
  • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
  • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.

  • Fluffy Kitty Cat
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    42 days ago

    Relay nodes are safe, exit nodes require special care. There’s a guide of you’re interested. You basically need a dedicated server with a understanding hosting provider and you will be contacted by law enforcement sooner or later. They usually go away after they learn it’s a dead end

    • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      41 day ago

      Except that relay nodes often get out onto proxy lists.

      Which means you now get to solve capchas for absoluty f-ing everything now.

      • @hayalci@fstab.sh
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        14 hours ago

        Yeah exit nodes can be lots of effort(probably, never ran one) but relay nodes do get issues. Some banks do outright block any nodes that run tor, regardless of the exit node or relay node status.