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> Kobble is the only app available where you own all of your data. What? I find that highly unlikely. In what way do I not "own" the texts I write in–for examp
by matt4077 10y ago
> Kobble is the only app available where you own all of your data.
What? I find that highly unlikely. In what way do I not "own" the texts I write in–for example–Apple's Notes.app?
And what is even meant by "own"? Even for something like Facebook, I'm pretty sure that I still own the copyright for texts I write in their app.
- detaro 10y agoNormally I'd expect something like "it is stored under your control" for the slogan "own your data", but that doesn't square with "saves directly to GitHub"
- ams6110 10y agoExactly. I see very little difference whether my notes are stored in a github repo or a google drive folder. In either case they are under "my" account but I don't think I would say that I really "own" the data because either service could hypothetically be gone tomorrow.
- kobble 10y agoThat's precisely why we use GitHub. It's unlikely to be gone tomorrow. No data is stored on our servers. In fact, we don't even see it. The data is transferred directly from your browser to GitHub.
- taormina 10y agoIs there any plan for a general git integration where I could point this at my own, hosted git solution? Then it could truly be owning my own data on my own hardware.
- Graphon1 10y agoWeird that everything is saved as a gist. I feel like it would make more sense to store them in one repo. I went looking for the notes I created in github, and found a bunch of flat gists. ??
- jmcdiesel 10y agohttps://gist.github.com/kobble-git/87ea625d421177f9e9307c6cee259e63/forks https://gist.github.com/kobble-git/87ea625d421177f9e9307c6ce... If you think that is ok, you're insane.
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- kobble 10y agoI'm one of the Kobble devs. Please read the comments above about sharing the various ways Kobble can be used. Gists are for the case where you want to share data openly. We will have support for private repos shortly for other use cases.
- jmcdiesel 10y agoThat being the case, its not made clear that everyone who uses that feature will be identified in a very public manner...
- azag0 10y agoEspecially when you can access notes on your own IMAP server with Apple Notes.
- michaelmior 10y agoAlso, there are plenty of other tools that store data locally and sync to GitHub. This isn't a new idea. Perhaps it's the best implementation of this idea so far (I haven't tried it), but the novelty doesn't seem to be there.
- ekblom 10y agoYeah, that's not correct, with my application Noterium you also "own" your notes, that is they are stored on your computer.
- kobble 10y agoBy 'own', we mean that no data is stored on our servers. The goal is privacy and to protect your data.
- grovegames 10y agoWe don't own Githubs servers any more than we own Apples. This statement is a falsehood.
- ythn 10y agoSo what you meant to say was "Kobble is the only app available where we don't own any of your data."
- dvfjsdhgfv 10y ago> You own all of your data. Kobble stores all data on Github You really don't see that the above is an oxymoron?
- kobble 10y agoPerhaps the word 'control' would be a better choice.
- stiGGG 10y agoI use Apple Notes and store all my notes on my own server
- keithnz 10y agoowning it by being in another web app? I feel this is solving a problem I don't really have reality is, github is a website, kobble is a website, there's no real difference in "owning" other than what those websites grant us in their Terms and Conditions. weird.
- kobble 10y agoWe have improved the wording, and changed 'own' to 'control'. As was stated elsewhere in these comments, we are building an open content sharing platform where users 'control' the data, not us. Since it's in your GitHub account and not on our servers, you can do whatever you want with it.