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Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would hope they would respond with how they can -prove- data can never be sold, by having accountable cryptography, etc.

At this point, there is not much to e2e encrypt--as most of the time you're posting for the internet to see. With more personal collections coming, we'll introduce encrypted content as well. Although this has nothing to do with selling users data—will work on our tos to communicate our expressed intents more clearly.

I assume user produce emails, payment information, potentially other PII, behavioral data, how long each user reads each post, etc that adtech companies will gladly pay for.

If the system were open source, decentralized, and/or if user PII was end to end encrypted then you could prove you literally lack the technical means to collect or sell data.

All data that is valuable and technically able to be sold, will eventually be sold.

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

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post #19

-Forever- is never true unless your offering is open source. 9/10 startups die and I will not pay for a service unless I have an path to migrate to my own server if the service goes under.

There is this paragraph right next to the forever one: > You'll be able to download a snapshot of your content, store and view it locally with a light version of Sora.

A light version still means I need to write a replacement for your whole proprietary engine to re-host my content.

Leaving a blog engine should be no different than changing an email provider. Point DNS somewhere else and optionally backup/restore via IMAP to the new service.

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