@linuxxx, your VPN service any closer to completion? 😁

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I genuinely want to do it but there are some obstacles I can't get around right now. I'll give more explanation after preparing dinner :D

Main reasons:
- legal stuff. I'm not good with this so it'd take money to get this good and I don't have that money right now.
- networking skills. Or lack thereof really. I'm good with Linux but I never finished any networking course and although I do know the basics, that's about it.
- time. Don't have enough of it right now :/

:'(

@iKameo Once I set it up for sure! I just have to get across the mentioned obstacles first :/

@linuxxx maybe it could be made a devRant collaborative project? I'm pretty sure some devRanters would contribute just to have a VPN that they could somewhat trust, myself included.

@BadFox Maybe, its just about what parts I'd get help with as I wouldn't trust many other people actually collaborating on the technical part (yes, my paranoia meter goes high in this area and that's not without a reason)

@linuxxx well, perhaps a Linux-like project thing, people contribute and you only have to check it over. It would still save you exorbitant amounts of time.

@BadFox how'd you imagine that exactly? (Genuine question)

I'd be able to learn enough to get it up and running, I think the legal part would become the toughest.

@linuxxx in essence, GitHub pull requests. In practice, proposed changes submitted to you which you look over and ultimately decide what gets incorporated. This makes it so anyone can at least contribute code. A template for setting up a new server through an Ansible playbook or something like it. I'm not sure if you'd be using open technologies that already exist or making your own.

As for the legal issues, you could at least have people the groundwork of finding which laws would apply to your VPN service in whichever country/state. As you said, the legal part would be the toughest. A smarter person than me would have to organise a way for us to contribute.

A way of having the project literarily made by the community for the community.

@linuxxx as a side note, the initial starting capital can be crowd funded.