on my private tracker you get points for just always seeding, you can turn those points in for ratios boosts at a pretty good rate.

Yeah it’s the issue with this ‘middle ground’ of federation. some ideal world would be fully p2p, identities fundamentally would rest with the user’s device or backed up somewhere public and encrypted, then servers just become meeting hubs or caches of content. there’s some protocols that already do this at a technical level, secure scuttlebutt and nostr are two. there’s other issues that crop up, for one moderation and content discovery starts to be a lot more complicated.

so, not a solved problem by any means, but federation at least gives us a bit more freedom than a singular centralized service.

Oh no, this isn’t me sadly. I recommend following them though, its a couple who lives on a sailboat and makes extremely DIY software among other things

Pretty amazing results

Sorry I should have explained more. It’s definitely on the philosophical side but he’s been living in a self constructed and worked on boat for decades, a true DIY-er in that sense. Maybe it’s actually a little too far out as it’s not a singular project so feel free to remove if you want.