Does @disroot store everything on a single RAID array without backups? Because that is what their status page makes it sound like?

@eldersea I guess to be even more clear, it could certainly be collectively managed by the workers, but consumers of the services wouldn’t be members if that makes sense.

I feel like I’ve seen a lot of sentiment that people would like to self-host services for others especially since the Proton fiasco, if it weren’t for X. X being some reason that could perhaps be solved by joining forces in a co-op startup.

@eldersea I guess I should be clear, I’m probably talking about a worker co-op, like a for-profit business selling services, not a collective/club.

There is certainly a business opportunity to offer services to customers based on regular open-source software instead of all the nonsense everyone else is doing lately lol

My secret passion for boring corporate law and organization could finally come in handy

RE: Proton
I am once again kinda tempted to start a tech co-op, but I always feel like starting new co-ops is like creating new standards (xkcd.com/927)

That being said, I do also have hella compute and storage I purchased in the before times (pre-AI-pricing)… Anyone think it’s a good idea?

(And more importantly, would want to be a co-founder. That’s probably the most important step, but… I know some people, maybe there’s a desire to make it happen)