At least in feddit (main German instance) there were a lot of posts offering up financial support, but it was declined because it was not needed.
I think especially the smaller communities wouldn’t have a problem coming with funds for hosting. Donations for lemmy developers have also increased significantly since the main exodus.
I get your scepticism, but I think the lemmy community for the most part wants this thing to “succeed” and is willing to chip in a reasonable amount.
https://github.com/toverainc/willow
They even have a dedicated piece of hardware for it.
Look into vlan.
Basically allows you to have different subnets rubbing on a physical network card.
It is possible what you want to do and not that complicated.
Well, time to post that Tom scott video again I guess.
Reolink ist the way to go. I think only the battery powered ones don’t have onvif. Otherwise the poe cameras all support onvif and are generally of very good quality. Plug it in and of you go. EDIT: Forgot to mention: You can configure the camera via the web interface, so no need for an app. I’m using the 820 at the moment, but I’m planning to get the new trackmix camera, these look really good.
The fact that the ccc uses matrix as their official chat “app” doesn’t imply that it is inherently insecure I would say.