It’s still on my to-do list.

fuck around and find out should be gentoo,

Or Slackware.

…but if you mix it with ME and NT you have a solid OS.

Software suggestions?

Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills.

In my country it’s illegal for the landlord to include utilities in the price.
It’s the responsibility of the tenant to subscribe to those services in their name.
It’s done to prevent landlords from cutting utilities on a whim or to pressure late payments.

if there’s a way to contribute storage,

So IPFS and Hyphanet?

computing resources,

BOINC comes to mind.

search and relay nodes

Perhaps SearxNG?

No issues so far, got sources?
Anyway, always follow 3-2-1 for backups.

Whatever the alternative - or even googledrive - if you first store your files in a cryptomator folder then it really doesn’t matter where you sync them to.

Incus (formerly LXC/D, on which Docker used to be based on) is on my to-learn list.
Docker is not.

There’s squirrelmail.