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National Capital Freenet Instance? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works to c/ottawa@lemmy.ca
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Just thinking out loud with all the current buzz - Anyone on here connected to National Capital Freenet? Would they have any interest in hosting a Lemmy instance for locals by donation (like they do with email, but donation scaled appropriately for whatever costs they take on)?

Always good to add another node, and from the outside this sounds like it would be in their wheelhouse (non-corporate, low/managed cost digital communication access).

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't heard of NCF for decades. It's awesome they're still around!

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

same here. I had a NCF account almost 30 years ago - back when Archie was the king of the internet!

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, still kicking! Only stayed on my radar because I like browsing very old, but inexplicably still hosted personal webpages once and a while. Don't think NCF still has any (/bait for people to prove me wrong with links), but Magma (Distributel now) had a bunch last time I went diving.

This is VERY premature, but I'd love to see a bolstering and resurgence of local internet non-profits as gateways to stuff like Lemmy, Mastodon and other open services.