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Hey, cofounder here, thanks for the interest. We just released our beta and I'm happy to answer any questions / take them to improve our site/docs. Here a coupl

Hey, cofounder here, thanks for the interest. We just released our beta and I'm happy to answer any questions / take them to improve our site/docs. Here a couple of answers on questions I'm seeing in the comments right now: Privacy: The clients are operating peer-2-peer and their communication is end-2-end encrypted. Meaning you and your peers host the data. The relay servers if needed are never and can never see your data. Unlimited Storage: As it's a peer to peer system, there are no 3rd party servers storing any of your data. So it's limited only by your clients capacity Open Source: The relay network servers are open source on our github site. The GUI client is closed source, you pay for the convenience. We might open source a pure command line client in the future. Privacy Policy & Terms: They are linked at the bottom of the page: https://diode.io/privacy-policy/ https://diode.io/privacy-policy/ & ttps://diode.io/msa/ I'm happy to answer all questions on this. Keep em coming.

throwaway1492 6y ago
How do you sleep at night knowing what evil this will be used for? Edit; honest question, I personally would never provide such a service for exactly this reason.
- ttfxxcc 6y ago
  How do you sleep at night knowing your tax dollars directly pay for mass murder and child rape?
  - throwaway1492 6y ago
    Lol post above is 3 minutes old, account is 4 minutes old? Diode Drive is that you?
    - moistbar 6y ago
      It's telling that you didn't bother to address the other, better-reasoned comment calling you out.
      - throwaway1492 6y ago
        Better reasoned? > The same question can be asked of literally any useful goods made available for sale. Presumably you don’t shop at grocery stores because they might feed a murderer, or allow plants to grow at your house because they could provide oxygen to criminals. This is absurd, anyone who claims this is a valid argument is fooling themselves.
        moistbar 6y ago
        Your argument is equally absurd. Should we stop selling screwdrivers as well because they might be used to stab someone? The practical uses for such a tool far outweigh the dangers it presents to society. Do you treat the developers of FTP, SCP, Samba, NFS, Firefox Send, or Dropbox this way? By the way, pedophiles use the internet. How can you sleep at night knowing that the fees you pay to your ISP are enabling people to molest children?
- hedora 6y ago
  The same question can be asked of literally any useful goods made available for sale. Presumably you don’t shop at grocery stores because they might feed a murderer, or allow plants to grow at your house because they could provide oxygen to criminals. The question can be turned around. How do you sleep at night supporting centralized information services, knowing they’re an enabling technology for despots?
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neolog 6y ago
How does it compare to syncthing?
- LeoPanthera 6y ago
  Virtually identical, as far as I can tell. Been using syncthing for years, it works very well.
- buildanduse 6y ago
  There are similarities for file sync between shared devices, but one of the big differences is that Diode Drive also enables sharing files with anyone by sending them a link (even if they don't have Diode Drive installed). Any of the sync'd devices that has the file can serve the share.
eslaught 6y ago
> you pay for the convenience I think this is a great business model. I also appreciate the willingness to open source at least some form of client, since that will help build trust (at least with us more technical users) that you're actually doing the encryption right. As a technical user though, I'd be absolutely terrified of data loss as an early adopter of these sorts of systems. (And note: it's not just about server-side data loss, it's also about all the bizarre ways clients can interact with the host OS/filesystem and the crazy number of edge cases that pop up there.) That's one of the big things keeping me on Dropbox: I know their platform is battle-tested. I wonder if there's a way you can provide more assurance about this?
- buildanduse 6y ago
  We will be coming out with some easy backup-specific options in the near future - it is a pain today to have to bring on a second peer to backup.
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djmips 6y ago
Hey cofounder, I really hate your name. I sure hope you don't get popular and be another company polluting the language unnecessarily by co-opting common words.

throwaway1492 6y ago

How do you sleep at night knowing what evil this will be used for? Edit; honest question, I personally would never provide such a service for exactly this reason.

ttfxxcc 6y ago
How do you sleep at night knowing your tax dollars directly pay for mass murder and child rape?
- throwaway1492 6y ago
  Lol post above is 3 minutes old, account is 4 minutes old? Diode Drive is that you?
  - moistbar 6y ago
    It's telling that you didn't bother to address the other, better-reasoned comment calling you out.
    - throwaway1492 6y ago
      Better reasoned? > The same question can be asked of literally any useful goods made available for sale. Presumably you don’t shop at grocery stores because they might feed a murderer, or allow plants to grow at your house because they could provide oxygen to criminals. This is absurd, anyone who claims this is a valid argument is fooling themselves.
      - moistbar 6y ago
        Your argument is equally absurd. Should we stop selling screwdrivers as well because they might be used to stab someone? The practical uses for such a tool far outweigh the dangers it presents to society. Do you treat the developers of FTP, SCP, Samba, NFS, Firefox Send, or Dropbox this way? By the way, pedophiles use the internet. How can you sleep at night knowing that the fees you pay to your ISP are enabling people to molest children?
hedora 6y ago
The same question can be asked of literally any useful goods made available for sale. Presumably you don’t shop at grocery stores because they might feed a murderer, or allow plants to grow at your house because they could provide oxygen to criminals. The question can be turned around. How do you sleep at night supporting centralized information services, knowing they’re an enabling technology for despots?
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neolog 6y ago

How does it compare to syncthing?

LeoPanthera 6y ago
Virtually identical, as far as I can tell. Been using syncthing for years, it works very well.
buildanduse 6y ago
There are similarities for file sync between shared devices, but one of the big differences is that Diode Drive also enables sharing files with anyone by sending them a link (even if they don't have Diode Drive installed). Any of the sync'd devices that has the file can serve the share.

eslaught 6y ago

> you pay for the convenience I think this is a great business model. I also appreciate the willingness to open source at least some form of client, since that will help build trust (at least with us more technical users) that you're actually doing the encryption right. As a technical user though, I'd be absolutely terrified of data loss as an early adopter of these sorts of systems. (And note: it's not just about server-side data loss, it's also about all the bizarre ways clients can interact with the host OS/filesystem and the crazy number of edge cases that pop up there.) That's one of the big things keeping me on Dropbox: I know their platform is battle-tested. I wonder if there's a way you can provide more assurance about this?

buildanduse 6y ago
We will be coming out with some easy backup-specific options in the near future - it is a pain today to have to bring on a second peer to backup.

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djmips 6y ago

Hey cofounder, I really hate your name. I sure hope you don't get popular and be another company polluting the language unnecessarily by co-opting common words.