Check out https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ - they are really good work preserving websites that are going down by scraping them with a network of distributed "warriors". You can run one on your hardware and contribute to saving the web for the future
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There's the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit
It could act as a list to go off of, if you don't want to host all of them. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit
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Just be careful running a Tor node and what kind of data could be flowing through your machine... It's Tor... so some of the data can be pretty fuckin unsavory while other data can be political dissidents who need safety.
As long as it's not an exit node, nobody will be able to tell what the traffic is. It's all encrypted including the metadata.
You could tun a TOR relay.
And wind up in prison!
Jk that’s an exit node lol
Meshtastic node?