A handful of federated services, running on hardware I own and a connection I pay for. There's no company behind this and nothing to sell you. Just open protocols, kept running by someone who actually uses them.
All of this runs on my hardware. Where a service speaks an open protocol you can use whichever client you like, and take your account somewhere else whenever you feel like it. That's rather the point.
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A Synapse homeserver, federated with the rest of the Matrix network.
Encrypted rooms, bridges, and whichever client you prefer. Your ID ends up
looking like @you:computingcache.com.
A general-purpose Mastodon instance, federating with Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and anything else that speaks ActivityPub. Signups are open, though I read every one by hand to keep the spam out.
A public strfry relay, free to read from and write to. No account, no signup, just point a Nostr client at the address above. It speaks NIP-01 through NIP-77, negentropy sync included. Need a client? I'd start with Vector.
Self-hosted GitLab for repositories, issue tracking and CI runners. Open registration is off, so I set accounts up for collaborators on request.
File sync and sharing, calendars and contacts, all over open standards: WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV. Storage is finite and I pay for it, so accounts get arranged one at a time.
An experiment in HTTP 402 payments settled over PIVX. The endpoint answers
402 Payment Required, you pay the amount it quotes, and the
content unlocks. Very much a lab demo, not a production service.
Mastodon takes signups on the instance itself, and the Nostr relay needs no account at all. For anything marked accounts by request, send me a message below or email admin@computingcache.com and say roughly what you'd use it for. Mostly that's so I know you're not a bot.
All of it is free, as-is, and kept running by one person in whatever spare time there is. Read the terms before you lean on any of it for something that matters, and keep your own backups. I do.
This is the part that makes the whole thing worth doing. My Mastodon instance is currently in touch with 0 other servers, every one of them run by somebody else, on their own hardware, under their own rules. The names below are real, pulled live from the instance's own peer list.
That reach is also the catch. Anything you post gets copied out to the servers involved in the conversation, and once it lands there, no delete button of mine can reach it. The privacy policy and terms both spell this out, but reading about it is not the same as watching it happen.
A three-minute sandbox: publish a post, watch the copies land on other servers, then try to delete them all. You will not manage it, and that is the lesson.
Every blip is a real event landing on the relay, streamed to your browser from
wss://nostr.computingcache.com. Rows are event kinds, and each blip
sits where its own timestamp says it belongs, so you're looking at the last two
minutes of actual traffic rather than a loop.
Only the kind and the timestamp get read. No message text, no author, no identifiers. A public relay carries whatever strangers decide to publish to it, and I'm not putting that on my front page unmoderated. Nothing is stored, and the connection closes when you go.
Mastodon, Matrix and the relay all carry things other people wrote, and federation means I end up caching content from servers I don't run either. If something here needs dealing with, this is the quickest way to reach me.
Email admin@computingcache.com with the exact URL, what's wrong with it, and a way to reach you. I read these myself, usually within a couple of days.
The reporting and takedown page has the detail: what to include, what a DMCA notice needs in it, and how counter-notices work.
It's just me back here, so replies aren't instant. Every message gets read, though.
Or write something here and it lands straight in my inbox.
Anything you send through this form is covered by the privacy policy. If it's an urgent takedown, please email admin@computingcache.com directly instead. It reaches me faster.