A world without money - youtube.com/watch?v=4oXSNkzuS5…

A very interesting video! Bilbo contacted us for a collaboration. It is fantastic to see that such projects and people still exist out there.

#money #trade #trom

Our TROM Discussions chat on Matrix is now TROM Community Discussions: This chatroom is not representative of TROM, but allows for a public discussion space, hopefully around TROM-like subjects.

I, Tio, need to focus on a new video series for TROM and that chat was keeping me too busy at times. While the discussions can be interesting, they are often offtopic and for me quite distracting,

I will keep an eye on the chat from time to time tho...

So you know.

#trom #tromsite #matrix #synapse

We have 2 new subscribers to our 200 for TROM campaign - tromsite.com/donate/

Thank Aaron and Wilf!

We need 9 more people in order to achieve our first goal: start a video series, bring back TROMnews and provide 20GB storage space for TROM Files for all users.

#opensource #foss #society #trom #tromsite #campaign #fedi

Rebooting TROM! These are our goals if you can help:

We can increase the storage space for TROM Files up to 50GB for each user. We can start a new video series, bring back TROMnews, make an app for VideoNeat, and more.

We only need a minimum of help. A handful of people willing to donate 5 Euros a month.

Since we do not bullshit you with "you send us money and we will give you a special treatment" then it is harder to find people to help us since everyone is used to being "rewarded" for their help.

But we want to keep everything that we do trade-free for EVERYONE.

We could easily say "If you donate we will give you more storage space on TROM Files" or more advantages for any of our services.

But we NEVER did that, and NEVER will.

Therefore, if you see the value in what we do - and please see here tromsite.com/donate/ all of what we do (scroll down to see it all), then please support us with this campaign.

The hopes are low, but then the surprises can feel a lot better.

#linux #trom #tromsite #foss #fedi #alternatives #volunteer #help

It is finally time to take care of TROM. The website got a bit updated/fixed here and there. We also updated the Donation page. There are 89 people who donate 5 Euros a month. Thank you so much!

Soon we will add goals to the donation page, and if we reach those we can release some new stuff and/or increase the storage for TROM Files for everyone and so forth.

If you can donate and support the so many projects we do, see tromsite.com/donate/

And check the main page if you want to see what we are doing tromsite.com/

#trom #volunteer #linux #foss #fedi #alternatives

Our Peertube instance will not work while we are moving the data file to the new server. Tomorrow hopefully we will have our Peertube located to the new server. 1.3TB of data had to be moved. Maybe the entire trom.tf server will be at the new location.

Hard to move this massive server but on it!

#server #sysadmin #trom

A big thanks to Raimondas for the 277 Euros donation. A great surprise and very welcomed. I, Tio, will try to live with as little money as possible in order to keep on focusing on TROM. To have time for it and myself. To keep these projects alive. In a few weeks time I will post more videos about the way I live in a motorhome with very little money - see tromhome.com/ . And of course I will try to kickstart a new TROM video series soon.

Any donation counts tromsite.com/donate/

Thank you again!

#trom #tromsite #trade-free

We need help with our 200 for TROM Campaign - tromsite.com/donate/ - we have a bit over 40% of the needed support. We only accept 5€ a month donations to not have to rely on a few individuals donating more money. We need to make this sustainable.

Unfortunately the support over the past months has dropped a little bit. So if you can, please support us.

On the same page you can see what you are supporting. We hope this year to bring new projects to TROM, although it is terribly difficult to do so when you can't even get the minimum support needed to run the current projects.

We have been resilient since 2011 so we will not give up, but the ones who see value in such projects need to support them at least a little bit in order for these projects to survive.

Many thanks to those who keep on supporting us!

#trom #tromsite #foss #opensource #donate #documentary #documentaries #volunteer #trom.tf

Bye bye TROMnews…. - tiotrom.com/2025/05/bye-bye-tr…

#tromnews #trom #news

IMPORTANT!

We will remove our Matrix server in a week time (4th of May). Here's why?

In short: the service has become hard to manage and bots (likely) have taken advantage of our kindness spamming other rooms/users. Because of that our hosting provider wanted to shut down our entire TROM.tf server. Hard to deal with all that and with a huge 300GB database. On top of this anyone can make an account with matrix.org or other instances.

Full explanation and solutions here - trom.tf/chat/

#trom #tromsite

Our chat.trom.tf (Matrix/Synapse) has become very difficult to manage - growing database, not an easy way to prevent bots from registering, or others from abusing our service.

For now we have closed the registrations and only accept them via requests. We have 460 users but we are thinking to perhaps shut down the entire service this year.

Too much work considering anyone can make trade-free accounts with matrix.org or other providers....

We will keep everyone informed about our future plans.

#foss #synapse #matrix #chat #trom #tromtf

Huge thanks to @Roma for donating 100 Euros towards our yearly backups campaign! Thank you so so much! we only need 90 more Euros to reach the goal :) See gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-…

So that we can keep all of our websites backed-up!

Many thanks!

#trom #foss #fedi #peertube #fediverse #friendica

Donate to Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects, organized by Tio TROM

We need to pay for our Borg Backups. We are backing up all of our websi… Tio TROM needs your support for Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects

^gofundme.com

Thank you Charles and Jurgen for helping with our fundraiser! gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-…

We need to pay for our yearly backups for all of our servers and files, that includes the files people store on any of our TROM.tf services.

So please, if you can help us a bit. We only need some 200 Euros for cover the bills.

Thanks!

#linux #opensource #fediverse #peertube #fedi #trom

Donate to Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects, organized by Tio TROM

We need to pay for our Borg Backups. We are backing up all of our websi… Tio TROM needs your support for Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects

^gofundme.com

We need to pay for the yearly backups for all of our services and content - gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-…

This means all of our TROM.tf services (friendica, peertube, nextcloud, etc.), all of our websites like tromsite.com, videoneat.com, tromjaro.com, and so on.

We only need 230 Euros to cover another year of backups. Please if you can help out since we are underfunded and cannot afford to pay for them.

The payment is yearly. We need to pay by the end of this month (March).

Thanks a bunch!

#trom #opensource #foss #fediverse #peertube #friendica #fedi #volunteer

Donate to Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects, organized by Tio TROM

We need to pay for our Borg Backups. We are backing up all of our websi… Tio TROM needs your support for Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects

^gofundme.com

Thank you for the anonymous 300 Euros donation! tromsite.com/donate

We will put the money towards buying a satellite dish in order to have a proper internet connection in the motorhome (TROMhome) to be able to manage all of our TROM Projects. If you have no phone signal, thus no Internet, then no one can fix/update any of our websites....but with a satellite internet we can stay connected anywhere basically.

For example when we release a new TROMjaro ISO that is 4-5GB that needs to be uploaded in 2 different places (so around 10GB) and to make sure they upload correctly. So a good and reliable internet connection is a must for us in the motorhome.

We only need 150 Euros more to buy the dish - gofundme.com/f/help-us-get-a-s…

If anyone can help, this is a direct help for TROM. If not, is ok since we will have to buy it anyway one way or another.

This 300 Euros donation is a huge help. Many many thanks!!

#tromhome #motorhome #trom

Donate to Help us get a satellite internet dish, organized by Tio TROM

We got a 300 Euros donation so we put the money towards this satellite dish. Thus we on… Tio TROM needs your support for Help us get a satellite internet dish

^gofundme.com

We have updated our Peertube to version 7! Lots of cool stuff - read more here.

But the most important for us is the visual aspect. Now we are using the main and default and much improved Peertube themes (Dark/Light) with very very minimal changes (maybe 5 lines of CSS).

No more broken UI, no more being unable to have a proper dark theme, no headaches with every Peertube updated. They have made an awesome theme and we will go with that.

We need to promote this platform more often and I ask people to try and be a bit more brave ;) and prioritize Peertube. Post there like we do. Sure you may get less views, but you are growing a trade-free (saner) platform, and thus saner minds that do not have to be exposed to the tsunami of ads that Youtube infects every viewer with.

Congrats @PeerTube for doing an amazing job!

#peertube #youtube #videos #video #trom #tromsite #tromtf #trade-free

TROM Send is back! send.trom.tf/ This time we are using Jirafeau instead of Lufi. It is simpler and easier to use. Encrypted and up to 10GB of file sharing. Enjoy! :)

#filesharing #share #trom #tromtf