I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.

It’s a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

Overview

Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

  • networks: Tor, i2p
  • computing: boinc, foldingathome
  • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
  • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.

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      Basically all programs which enable file sharing via your Internet connection. Germany is notorious for having a huge amount of lawyers which are only dedicated to tracking down and file a copy right infringement (or worse) case against people, who had unlawful actions done over their IP. And if you can’t pay your fines, jail time is waiting.