@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social On the note of group policies; those are certainly most ideal, but many people often find themselves with not many other people they know with the same passion and drive to start such a project. Frequently none.

I myself host a nextcloud for several groups as its lone administrator. And not out of choice. I've been looking for someone to share the load (and also balance against my power, I dont like having unilateral control over so much.). The people I serve are not technically literate, and so dont know how to vet people for this or even why I find it so important. It's frustrating.

The problem is: coordination, collaboration? It's hard. And it's especially hard in a society that conditions people to be infantilized by tech. But it is so very very important.

However if you mix the strain of hosting the project on top of it... it becomes even more unreasonable to expect a robust group with guidelines and policies AND the solution instead of just some random person doing it in their free time as basically a hobby.

It's such a pervasive problem, the lack of material incentive but surplus of unreasonable drive, related to the software and tech community as a whole that it's a frequent joke: https://xkcd.com/2347/