Please see my comment in another branch of this thread.

Sorry about the confusion.

I am the owner of gobblin.se. Gobblin is the largest open MediaGoblin instance out there as far as I know.

I am also one of the core contributors to GNU MediaGoblin, and I'd like to show my work in exchange of feedback. That is why I spend money on public services. Like with other free services, the user is the product, I'm simply buying testers for the MediaGoblin application by providing free video hosting.

I do simply not have the motivation to buy a SSL certificate for gobblin.se, since I know whatever money I spend on it will go to a cause that I do not agree with. To me the CA system is fundamentally broken.

I believe there is a need for a MediaGoblin as a service provider. So far, gobblin.se is not it.

gobblin.se has a great potential to be a MediaGoblin as a service provider though since the owner is one of the people most familiar with the ins and outs of the application. The hurdle is simlpy that the owner has a stimulating day job which enables him to pay the server fees, thus creating little motivation to convert gobblin.se from what it is now to a MediaGoblin as a service provider.

Thank you for your time and sorry for being rude. If there's anything you'd like to talk about, contact me via http://wandborg.se/

Mr. Money. You should donate to GNU MediaGoblin so that they can afford a "real" certificate, if they want to spend the money on that.

It's not really developed by the GNU project. It's part of the GNU project. It is developed by some 50 people with more or less no organizational affilliation to the GNU project or the Free Software Foundation.

So far, the only person to get paid for development of GNU MediaGoblin is me - The Icelanding Ministry of Education, Science and Culture commisioned an API, which , but improveable.

However, there is currently a fundraiser going on to support one full-time project leader during a year.

Contribute!

Hey, I'm the owner of http://gobblin.se/. The thing I think most users are afraid of is the CACert certificate that shows a big "WARNING, THIS SITE MAY KILL THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE THE MOST"-style message.

I like SSL, but I don't want to pay a gazillion dollars for it, or anything at all - I'm already paying the bills for the server. That is why CACert is used.

CACert validates domain ownership via an email to a typical admin e-mail such as info@gobblin.se, so you should be able to trust them for such things as media storage and serving.

If you don't want to let CACert in your approved-ca-bucket, just use http://gobblin.se/.

Also, no guarantees for anything on that server, if you want reliability you should either find someone to pay money for the service or set up your own instance.

You have been misinformed. MediaGoblin is not a Facebook-killer. It's a Flickr/SmugMug/Gallery3/YouTube/Soundcloud-killer. Currently it is a media hosting application built in Python running on a Django-like unframework backed by celery task processing (optional). It has some social features but much is still lacking. Intentions are that instances should be provide some "follow", "comment", [...] functionality across instances, that work will be based on the OStatus collection of specification drafts (the same thing StatusNet [identi.ca] uses).

Currently the MediaGoblin wiki is down, which is the residence for a list of live instances. AFAIK there are two instances running with open registration at the moment: http://gobblin.se/ and http://goblinartists.net./