What if you could buy off the shelf a box based on #opensource software and hardware that you could plug into your internet connection. You could connect to via Wifi and it would allow an average person to fairly easily configure, via a guided setup, a self hosted Cloud Drive, Social Media server, home automation service, VPN end point, email server and other commonly useful software?
What if that box allowed that person’s friends to authenticate and to that box and link a box they own, either close by or remotely. It could extend connectivity and estabilish a chain of trus, provide a level of encrypted backup of content from that box and make assertions about the users on that box such as - This user account is owned by this person, this user account is over 18?
This is a dream. I know I’m rambling. #openwrt, #yunohost, #seflhost, #chainoftrust, #fediverse
One thing that I am going to do is take a look what guided tools exist for #Openwrt - Its not something that I ever looked at before but - I think that’s a micro example of what would be required to eventually deliver something like this - If users could plug a stock version of Openwrt in and be guided through setting it up to run on their internet connection that would be a step - soft of like how work with #Thunderbird to make setting up an email address in the application just as easy as possible encourages people to use it.