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I am quite confident that the NSA does not have a complete image of the encrypted data in my self-hosted Nextcloud instance. With IPFS they wouldn't even have to do anything, if they sometime in the future were able to break the encryption.
Yeah there's actually powerpoints from the snowden leaks showing how much they ingest per month and how much of that they keep, etc.
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Are you looking for Syncthing? https://syncthing.net/
Syncthing doesn't do smart sync. The library of stuff I want available is larger than can fit on my phone.
Maybe it's possible to implement that as an extra app though, without even touching Syncthing. Android seems to have some concept of virtual file systems provided by apps so perhaps one could on-demand un-ignore files then block until they're available. (But yeah, that's definitely more than a quick hack.)
I haven't really understood how the "decentralized" comes into place. My notion of decentralization is the existence of multiple instances managed by unrelated people, such that the service keeps going if one actor falls down. From what I see here, the decentralization lies in the fact that the central service stores the data across multiple servers. So it's not technically speaking a lie, but i would say it is a bit…
An e2e Dropbox alternative would be great. Though for it to actually count as a Dropbox alternative (to me) it would need: 1) a Linux app 2) an Android app 3) on-demand syncing, aka "smart sync"
We currently have a macOS app available and are targeting January for a Windows launch and a Linux launch soon after. We also have an iOS and Android app with a few beta users, and will release it around Jan/Feb'22.
Slik’s desktop apps have the ability to automatically detect changes in your local connected folder and sync those changes.
About On-demand syncing - we built Slik in a way that, once backed up, no files are required on your local machine. This doesn't prevent you from searching through all your files, and you can selectively download files based on your need.
However, I have added an item on our roadmap that would selectively download folders for offline syncing and faster access. Thanks again!
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Syncthing doesn't do smart sync. The library of stuff I want available is larger than can fit on my phone.
Syncthing has ignore files which can be used to selectively not sync certain files or folders per device. I'm not familiar with Dropbox's smart sync, so if it's like a transparent on-demand sync then no, Syncthing doesn't have that. Maybe it's possible to implement that as an extra app though, without even touching Syncthing. Android seems to have some concept of virtual file systems provided by apps so perhaps one c…
An e2e Dropbox alternative would be great. Though for it to actually count as a Dropbox alternative (to me) it would need: 1) a Linux app 2) an Android app 3) on-demand syncing, aka "smart sync"
I'd love to like this because imo decentralized private storage is an important issue that urgently needs solutions. But how can you convince people this is better than trusting dropbox when you don't even tell them how it works? And how do you guarantee lifetime storage through a small one time payment? Surely Storj disk space providers aren't going to host files for free.