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While it is going to cost money of course, this is exactly what we are building into our product. But instead of using centralized servers that know your privat
by andrewxhill 9y ago
While it is going to cost money of course, this is exactly what we are building into our product. But instead of using centralized servers that know your private keys, we are building it on decentralized hosting (IPFS) and we never know your private keys. Take a look, https://www.textile.photos/ https://www.textile.photos/
- wybiral 9y agoI thought IPFS required someone to pin/host the content in order for it to stay alive. So if it's private how many people are likely to host it? Or am I missing a detail?
- andrewxhill 9y agoUntil filecoin is live we are spinning up ifps nodes to ensure your content is available. Alternatively, we are building both a mobile and desktop client and you'll be able to just choose to have your desktop automatically pin your content. Finally we provide you a private wallet that will contain your personal hash list, making it so you could move your data to other services or tools however you like.
- askvictor 9y agoThat's pretty cool. Can I suggest though, that sharing easily on other platforms will be important (at least as a stepping stone)? So that might involve building a facebook app that shows shared photos as well as the default one. Even though this might seem counter to #deletefacebook, I think you need to let people take small steps to taking their data back.
- andrewxhill 9y agoTotally, I'm into that. One of the big motivators here is how painful it is currently to move _your_ photos (or any personal data) across services. We want to build an open system where you control where your data goes and how. It seems like a great idea to have outbound integration like that for sure.