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@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The World doesn't want this decentralized approach to privacy so it resorts to o
- Fairly easy to maintain, using FOSS tools
- Reconfigurable to meet the needs of a local community
- No anonymity - neither by having identity hidden, nor by being so large that you get lost in the crowd
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- Substantial - legitimately replaces the structures of sin of the WWW
- Gifted - not rent-seeking, legitimately paid for by the community that uses it in ways that are charitable
# A Day with the Catholic Intranet
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ I'm midway through the Dies Irae when it cuts out and my son butts in over (the
Back at the office I sit down at my computer to add a few receipts. I took pictures of the receipts and they auto-uploaded into the Immich instance on the server. I download the pictures from Immich and move them to my receipts folder (inside my documents). The whole documents folder syncs back up over Nextcloud. My wife (and secretary) gets the files quickly synced to her documents folder as well.
As I finish up for the day I check the community bulletin board (just a Mastodon(?) instance on the server). Karen has a few extra baskets she no longer needs, Jennifer is looking for homesitting while their family is going off on vacation in a few weeks, and Joe is having a block party tomorrow night. Posts are
As I finish up for the day I check the community bulletin board (just a Mastodon(?) instance on the server). Karen has a few extra baskets she no longer needs, Jennifer is looking for homesitting while their family is going off on vacation in a few weeks, and Joe is having a block party tomorrow night. Posts are limited to pretty practical affairs here. The big questions are discussed in person where real nuance can be had.
File syncing of course extends beyond the family. It's easy to share any records and documents with anyone - just add the new choir member to the choir folder, and voila, they've got access to all the sheet music!
When people are working on documents simultaneously, Collabora is a great help.
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You might be wondering - where is this server anyways, and who's funding it? Well, it's at my neighbor James' house - he's got a really high-speed fiber line so it just made sense. The next parish over actually keeps theirs, well, at their parish! James is the system administrator - you talk to him if you've got any troubles. It's crowdfunded - it pays for the server hardware and the network connection, and a small salary for James. Since we use the thing a lot and can afford it my business donates a lot. But there's a lot of not-so-well-off families that just use it free of charge.
My neighbor Alex has his own server that mirrors ours. Alex is on a low-speed internet connection so he needs to have that local cache.
Oh, and of course, the parish website is hosted here. In fact everything is actually subdomains on that parish website.