You own your own data in a "gaia hub" where apps have to have permission to write this data to your hub, permitted you give it to them. This way, if you ever le

You own your own data in a "gaia hub" where apps have to have permission to write this data to your hub, permitted you give it to them. This way, if you ever leave graphite, or any other app in the eco system, you still have your data in the gaia hub. You can use the gaia cli to list all the files you have. You can host your own gaia hub, or have a default hosted configuration, but still it is associated with your username/identity. We are working on gaia hub migrations so you can easily migrate data from one place to the other. Soon we will have images to auto launch on most cloud hosting platforms. The docker-compose files should allow for setup on a local server as well. I am prioritizing users hosting gaia hubs on their own servers over any cloud host provider. Let me know if you have any more questions. But yes, the entire idea is centered around #2.