Peergos VS ts-odd

A good Dropbox alternative is Peergos (founder here). Peergos is an E2EE P2P storage, sharing and application protocol. Fully open source, including the server, self-hostable, no VCs.

https://peergos.org

You can do that with peergos [1]- mount a peergos folder locally using FUSE. Or login to the web interface and share easily and privately.

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

You might be interested in the p2p design of Peergos. You sign up to Peergos[0]. Your initial server is just responsible for storing your data (although you can run as many live mirrors as you like), and clients verify all updates. You can automatically move server (by running a command) and all your data is moved, and old links continue to work, and you keep your social graph and identity.

You can also log in through any instance, including localhost. Links also work on any server because they include a capability to the content in the link.

This is the beauty of content addressing plus public key based addressing.

[0] https://peergos.org

Totally agree! Shameless self promotion: have a look a Peergos - https://github.com/peergos/peergos

Our tech book might be a better starting point for this group: https://book.peergos.org

https://peergos.org

https://book.peergos.org

https://github.com/peergos/peergos

Features:

* audited by Cure53

* protects metadata (directory structure, file name and properties, file sizes, social graph)

* fine grained capability-based access control

* built-in social media

* sandboxed 3rd-party apps: e.g. word doc viewer, calendar, text editor, games etc.

* FUSE bindings

* CLI

* cross platform

* browser client

I use Peergos[0] for E2EE storage, doc editing, sharing media, calendar, kanban boards and social media. (Disclaimer: I also work on Peergos).

[0] https://peergos.org

Interesting!

Seems to have a fair bit of crossover with what the Fission team is doing. Yesterday I stumbled upon a web page re: a presentation[1] that a key Fission dev/founder (former Ethereum Core Dev) will be making in late September:

I ended up spending some time playing with Fission Drive[2] and looking at their Guide[3], and just generally reading their dev[4] and marketing materials[5].

Anyway, looking at the Web5 site, it seem to strike some of the same notes.

I'm not affiliated with or participating with Fission in any way, but am working as part of a team developing a decentralized storage protocol focused on durability.

[1] https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2022/a-distributed-file-syste...

[2] https://drive.fission.codes/

[3] https://guide.fission.codes/

[4] https://github.com/fission-suite

[5] https://fission.codes/

Currently, I work at fission.codes, and I have to say, it’s right up my alley. I wasn’t expecting to get the job. In fact, I didn’t really take the application seriously. But to my surprise, the CEO reached out to me to schedule a call, which I missed. I was really tired that day, so I slept off. I reached out to the CEO apologizing for missing the call, and trying to reschedule. Thankfully, he did. The interview went smoothly, and I got the job.

Note that the Filecoin network (which was designed to be the incentive layer for IPFS storage) has been operational for some time. If you look at the current status at https://file.app/ , you can see that storage costs there are extremely low for large amounts of data. f you can get your data verified as open, public data by applying for datacap with a Filecoin+ notary, it's currently free. See https://plus.fil.org/ (you can get 32GB of free datacap to play with just for having a github account).

If you want to use the Filecoin network as a "provider of last resort" for IPFS data, there's https://estuary.tech which will mark your data as verified, sort out the deals with storage providers, and then mirror it to IPFS.

There's also third-party tools like https://fission.codes/ , https://docs.textile.io/powergate/ , https://web3.storage/ and https://www.pinata.cloud/ for making this easier.

(Disclosure: I work at the Filecoin Foundation.)

There are several technical affordances to this at the moment. Local-first or edge apps enable the whole experience to take place in the security of one's own device and can continue offline without internet connection. Zero Data protocols like remoteStorage, Fission, and Solidobviate the need to create accounts (because people bring their own data storage) and also enable apps as swappable lenses—"software is the principles of an experience" (as Steve Jobs might have said) and your data becomes the details. Sharing content via URI fragment stores data in the link itself so that no 3rd-party server is necessary to hold the data (for example, a multi-platform music playlist).

You have to encrypt your own files. But there are solutions in the works! In the Filecoin Ecosystem check out https://fission.codes

Check out https://fission.codes they have a private drive

Or check out and the Webnative SDK that we've built all this into: https://github.com/fission-suite/webnative