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Dave has announced some changes coming to FeedLand, and is accepting comments. I feel like it’s fitting to blog about them.
I’ve love to host a server. I’m not a JS developer, but I’d also happily contribute docs or finances if it’d help.
I see it as natural a thing to do as hosting WordPress, MediaWiki, and the static-generated site you’re reading now. It achieves a few things:
I like the security and control of my data that comes from self-hosting things. I trust Dave, but it always feels good being able to see the tables and code for yourself.
There’s the potential for integration with other stuff you host.
It reduces the load on Dave’s servers, as little as it may be.
I’ll be interested to see what the technical requirements are. I briefly ran a Node.js and MariaDB stack on FreeBSD (my preferred server OS) for Ghost, so I’d expect the toolchain to be similar.