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The solution to this in my mind is self-hosting. Yes, right now that's the exclusive domain of tech nerds, but in theory there's no reason that an open source p
by indigochill 4y ago
The solution to this in my mind is self-hosting. Yes, right now that's the exclusive domain of tech nerds, but in theory there's no reason that an open source project can't come along and make this relatively easy for non-techies to set up for themselves (in a similar way to how, say, Squarespace made website creation easy).
I think the real hurdle in adoption would be that most non-techies don't even register their dependence on big cloud providers as a problem yet. But I expect the day is coming. Similar to how Mastodon saw an influx of Twitter users when Musk announced he was intending to buy Twitter.
- charlie0 4y agoFilecoin and IPFS?
- tarboreus 4y agoSyncThing is actually really good. The main issue is integrations. A lot of mobile apps work with Dropbox but not with decent FOSS alternatives.
- XorNot 4y agoSyncthing also has untrusted hosts support now: you can sync your files to a host you don't trust, and it keeps them encrypted on the destination.
- throw7 4y agoVery cool. Looks like it's currently marked beta/testing.
- Sakos 4y agoThe main issue is you can accidentally nuke your own source directory and it's possible to do so in non-obvious ways. This has happened to me a few times (though thankfully had backups elsewhere).
- pixelbro 4y agoSyncThing comes with a built-in feature to keep the last n versions of files around[1], for added peace of mind. https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html
- slaymaker1907 4y agoIt only works though if you dedicate a separate server for sync.