Lady, EVOLVED 
i don’t want to operate a tilde town, but i do think all of my friends should have a server they can rsync files to and have them appear on the web
@aescling you should start a tilde town
i think what i actually want is :—
• A GitWeb instance
• A number of users which only have git access, and only to repositories they own
• A straightforward means of getting new repositories (and corresponding subdomains) allocated to users [this can probably just be manual, on request]
• A post-receive hook in every repository which, if the repository has a file named Makefile or GNUmakefile, clones the repository and then runs `make install DESTDIR=public`, serving the contents of the resulting `public` directory from a corresponding subdomain
• Maybe a small amount of allowable additional server configurations besides
@Lady Makefile execution as a service is always scary, but https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server might get you there without a ton of effort if you can stomach Gitea over gitweb. (I assume you have your reasons for not doing Git{Hub, Lab} Pages, but obviously those also exist.)
@aschmitz oh i mean i would never give access to anyone i didn’t trust OR put anything sensitive on the server ever OR have any kind of uptime or reliability guarantees, if i were to ever do this, to be clear
for my own purposes, i just run make locally and then rsync. but i think that’s a tiny bit too unstructured to be a shared workflow
i think proper CI/CD pipelines with gitea/forgejo/gitlab/github etc are Fine, but wasteful, and also best to do on their infrastructure and not on a friend’s
i have some good makefiles you can use; this gets you a lot