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Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android

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Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android

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Post by not_rhodey »

jkscm wrote: post #30

Can I host a Flock server and charge money for it myself? Many people may not like having to sync their data to servers in the USA, even if the data is encrypted.

The Android Flock client works with any standards compliant WebDAV/CardDAV/CalDAV server. There is nothing stopping anyone from running a server of their own, at which point you can do anything you want with the server including charge for its use.

Re: Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android

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Post by patcon »

vincentkriek wrote: post #16

I love that there are creative artistic people out there that care about privacy and owning your own data. There are tons of great apps out there that basically do this like CalDAV/CardDAV sync [1][2], but they aren't beautiful like this one. I like beautiful design, especially on my phone but I like owning my data even more. This is truely a great product. Edit: I see this is encrypted as well. I really need to dive…

Not sure if the Twitter acquisition has any part in this, but worth pointing out: https://whispersystems.org/blog/welcome/

EDIT: Having said that, MAN I love these folks. I wish they got along better with the F-Droid community[1], but hopefully that will eventually get sorted out :)

[1]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/281

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