🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@nyquildotorg No but havent made a single post in more than a year to that account other than cross posts from mastodon. I very rarely even see responses or boosts in the twitter universe. Its just that as a public clone of this account.

@snder By the way this project forms a third company under cleverthis.com. This one you likely wont be getting involved in because its hardware and a relatively small project. But just wanted to show you part of what is under cleverthis

@mngrif anything less than 64bits and 16 gigs of memory is retrocomputing :)

@snder he is a techy. When it comes to retro computers, and system administration he knows his shit for sure. Enough that if i were a bullshitter he probably would have figured me out by now :)

@mngrif @inditoot

@snder
Well hopefully we will make fun into more together if the stars align :) I have high hopes for you.

@inditoot

@snder

Just for some background @mngrif is a very old and dear friend of mine. Must have known him at least a decade now. We used to be roommates for a short while a few times to. So he saw this whole venture in the very very early days when it was still just an idea. Now we have several products in production :)

@inditoot

@mngrif
We have come a LONG way since I last updated you. Though a lot of the original ideas are still there in some form. Now we actually have funding and several of the products already at production level. I always knew it was a decade or more to realize the whole dream but its finally at the point where its something real and not just an idea.

Exciting times.

@snder @inditoot

@snder @inditoot Yea there is a LOT going on on my end. Enough to overwhelm most people. But my gameplan was to just introduce you to everything I have going on, and the people, then seeing what gets you excited and going from there. I'm flexible. I want people to help me doing what they love because then I know they will be worth the time!

I will say the part of the project that already has initial level of investment is the graphactor project which falls under cleverthis.com and will be hosted on Qoto once its up.

@snder
Well that depends on just what parts you want to get involved in. You have experience with the fediverse so helping out the Qoto side would be great, but its non-profit so probably not the most benefit to you if you arent also a part of the other projects (which i didnt mention in this thread). So really just depends on what you want to help with and how high of a priority it is for you to come out of it making some money.

In my mind the other projects under cleverthis.com are all enhanced and improved by what Qoto will offer. In fact I plan to make Qoto the place where the projects are hosted (as they are all mostly open-source).

So ideally youd be involved int he whole cleverthis.com universe, including qoto, that will be the best way to ensure youll benefit when the commercial part of the venture starts paying off. Plus with Qoto being non-profit at least we can feel like we are giving back at the same time.

Thats my thinking anyway, ultimately where you get involved and to what extent will be largely up to you and what you want to get out of all this.

@inditoot

@snder
Yup We have a whole organizational structure of things going up around this. Cleverthis.com will be the parent company that mostly donates its profits into QOTO. Qoto will be the non-profit that will host all the various collaboration and hosting services for everyone. One component in that will be mastodon. But I want to make the other services (for example gitlab) unified under the same login. So it will appear as though it is one service.

I also have several other companies that will fall under cleverthis.com but that is unrelated to this conversation.

@inditoot

@inditoot
Not yet but thats one of the things im working on bringing up as part of the new ecosystem

@snder

@snder
So far it is all being kept for robust and complete searches.

@inditoot

@snder
See my other response to the both of you.

@inditoot

@inditoot
First line backup is wasabi. Then it will be disceminated back to S3 again but this time through a seperate server that will locally zip it first. This should eliminate the costs with S3 since we were backing it up without zipping first (we didnt want to load the server).

@snder

@inditoot
We used to use S3for redundancy. Cost us 600$ a month total cost when we did that. We recently moved ourbackups which brought the price closer to 200$

@snder

@snder
You've done a great job with what you got :)

@inditoot

@snder
If we reduced redundancy on backups and did not index the whole fediverse I could probably get it well below $100. But its important to me to make this a professional setup.

@inditoot

@inditoot @snder The server itself is 120$ its the large server, dedicated option through mastodon.host actually (he helps us on day-to-day maintenance, we modify the source ourself and do the testing ourselves).

Then there is about an extra $60 in backup and storage costs. We have multiple-redundant backup.