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This is really nice, but I don’t understand what the willow part really brings, unfortunately

rsync and rclone are two different projects

The hosting part is, indeed, a technical part but a tool like copyparty can help here:

https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/README.md#markdown-viewer

It runs everywhere, is just a single file you double-click to open and browse from your browser. Makdown files are automatically rendered. You can upload a bunch of files directly, or just send them by mail and put them in a directory served by copyparty

That’s basically what gopher is: a capsule of hierarchically ordered documents, easily browsable thanks to a normalized interface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

The web is one of its spiritual successor and is plenty usable to share text files. Most if not all software can generate indexes of content in a directory. wget and friends can be used to retrieve the whole archive. If you generate html files you can then style them independently of the content.

And with garage hosted on multiple places you can even have an S3 endpoint, with redudancy, without the cloud !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

If not hosting anything is ok for you, deltachat allows you to share locations to people in a chat. It’s fully e2ee. You can use it with existing relays, but if you want you can host one that will be useful to everyone: https://chatmail.at/

Do people actually discover projects by randomly wandering on github though

I mean, it’s all links, a link to github or a link to codeberg won’t change much