We've got a new release out! This includes a timezone fix for sync, and 1000x faster host dir listing when creating a sync. github.com/Peergos/web-...

We've got a new release out folks! github.com/Peergos/web-... This let you easily migrate servers with a single click! This of course keeps all your data, friends, and identity intact. There is also a way to request/pay for another server to live mirror your data.

"Bad news: The proposal is going forward to be voted on on October 14th, and there's still no blocking minority achieved, as Germany reverted its position to undecided. Good news: There is still time to fight back!" Shut this monstrosity down NOW

There;s a new version of peergos out folks! HTTP proxy support, lots of fixes and some optimisations. github.com/Peergos/web-...

We've already solved these problems in Peergos. Apps can be given permission to store app private data, read private user data, or write private user data, on a per file/dir granularity. Everything is stored E2EE on your PDS in Peergos. We treat your PDS *and* apps as current adversaries.

The defences we have against this kind of attack include: 1) We don't use npm (we manually review the few JS dependencies we have when updating) 2) We only have a handful of JS deps 3) We vendor our dependencies in git 4) We use strong CSP that blocks any external communication to other domains

Don't outsource your sovereignty. Use end-to-end encryption.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDU4... Peergos seems pretty interesting

@igalia.com Great post! Some small corrections for blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2... 1. Peergos doesn't depend on js-libp2p at all (we don't do p2p stuff in the browser for privacy and security reasons). 2. We've used webcrypto Ed25519 when present for over a year: github.com/Peergos/web-...

i think part of the reason this hasn't been done yet on atproto is because there's no means for private data yet so anything someone in a group would post would be public

Apparently it was "non-profit day" a few days ago. We are proud to be a non-profit and not have any investors. We think the future of the web is too important to leave to venture capitalists. We were reading this the other day - wedontagree.net/technically-... - and this section jumped out at us:

We've got a new release out folks! This enables sync from any drive in Windows and Linux, and includes a 3X faster GC on large blockstores. github.com/Peergos/web-...

We've been using Ed25519 in browsers for over 10 years now (every identity and writer is an Ed25519 pair in Peergos), so we really appreciate this and how much work it has been. The size of nacl.js is 30KB so not a significant benefit, but the web-crypto version is 10x faster!

The GC (garbage collector) in @peergos.org has been taking > 3 hours to run on a 10 TiB remote block store, and during this time it was maxing out the metadata DB cpu (during the mark phase), so I've been trying to optimise it. The metadata db is used by live queries so this wasn't great.

Decentralization is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient for democracy. You also need privacy. If the digital world is the Panopticon with everything public, then no resistance will be able to organise to fight against dictators.

Thanks for asking @jackvalinsky.com I've been meaning to do a long thread on bluesky, but I'll try and give a broad overview here.

We have a new release with lots of sync improvements and optimisations, especially on Windows and Android. github.com/Peergos/web-...

It's fun seeing all the lists we are on: awesome-privacy awesome-selfhosted awesome-ipfs awesome-european-tech awesome-ipfs

These excellent principles are exactly the guidelines we've been using to build the @peergos.org social web protocol since 2013. We've refused to take any investment, especially VC investment, and are set up as a non profit so we can make the right decisions to empower people and protect democracy.

Why is decentralization important for your future? peergos.org/posts/decent...

Thank you @carissaveliz.bsky.social @moonalice.com @carolecadwalla.bsky.social That was an excellent discussion. We've been trying to stop surveillance capitalism by fixing the underlying structure of the web from which it emerged. Making all new apps private by default. @peergos.org

There's a new Peergos release out with a bunch of improvements to sync: github.com/Peergos/web-...

Truncation is a footgun, for two reasons:

Fun fact: we have verified streaming (and seeking) of huge files, including in the browser, without using blake3. In fact, we've had this since a year before blake3 even existed.

Peergos now uses post-quantum encryption! A hybrid of x25519 and MLKEM is used to protect shared files (Unshared files were already quantum resistant). github.com/Peergos/web-...

If you like these ideas, then come and join us on @peergos.org where we're trying to build this vision for a humane social web.

This makes shared files in Peergos post-quantum encrypted: github.com/Peergos/Peer...

This is an interesting talk with Hinton about the dangers of AI to humanity. One of the things he mentions is something I've been raving about for a decade - the danger of people using AI to swing elections based on detailed profiles of everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0...

"When the government can track where you go, whom you associate with, and what you spend your money on, it [...] chills freedom of expression, undermines your freedom to travel, and destroys the fundamental privacy right that underlies American liberty." www.techpolicy.press/the-new-surv...

We have a new release out with automatic concurrent modification resolution, sync status updates in the web-ui and a host of fixes and optimisations! Arbitrary renames with file duplicates are detected correctly in the sync client and use moves, not delete and upload. github.com/Peergos/web-...

Our sync client is now 60x faster, on desktop and android, with a bunch more optimisations! github.com/Peergos/web-... It turns out on android that DocumentFile.getLength() takes ~20ms, which is enormous. Luckily the part of sync that uses that is trivially parallel, so we can work around it.

Our Android sync client just got much much faster. Especially if you have 1000s of photos you want to sync. github.com/Peergos/web-...

We've just released a new sync client for Peergos, with a gui, on both desktop and android. You can now also optionally not sync deletes. github.com/Peergos/web-...

@peergos.org Congrats on the micro grant from FUTO! I hope they’ll help you get more publicity, too.

Bi-directional sync is coming to android soon!

@peergos.org has a working solution that could be adopted. github.com/bluesky-soci...

Fortunately a lot of what I want to see built can reuse a significant fraction of atproto. Portable identity which is reusable in different "modals" is the most significant part already in place. @peergos.org are building some relevant stuff for portable but private social data

There is a new release of Peergos! We made loading huge directories 10X faster (someone tried putting 100,000 files in a folder and loading it in the web-ui). github.com/Peergos/web-... The magic sauce here was simply a bulk champ.get call.

@ianopolous.bsky.social I can’t believe I’ve never heard of peergos until now, I hope it is as good as it seems! I agree with your critiques of DNS in your libp2p talk, the DNS we have today is antithetical to privacy. “[we] kill people based on metadata" ~ General Michael Hayden

Someone wrote about us! www.xda-developers.com/peergos-is-a...

We have just cut a new release of Peergos, v1.1.0, which includes an Android app and a new “shared” page, which shows everything you’ve shared or made secret links to. github.com/Peergos/web-... The download links and Google play link are here: peergos.org/download

relieving and gratifying to see this ship in all three engines after kicking off the effort years ago. @igalia.com stepped into an area new to them and did an incredible job getting all the parties aligned and keeping things moving amidst major differences, and sticking it out until the very end.

My proposal for private, access controlled data in atproto (e2ee): github.com/bluesky-soci...

This an excellent post about the emergent properties of atproto design. This is one of the reasons, along with privacy, that we designed the @peergos.org protocol to be E2EE. This means the server can't MITM you in any way and cut off your PDS. Of course this means fat clients,

My colleague Javier Fernandez wrote about the continued work he's been doing on the web platform in the Web Cryptography API and what remains in order to get the featured shipped in all three major browser engines: blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2...

atproto should adopt the @peergos.org protocol which solves the privacy problems by both encrypting data and restricting access to ciphertext. We've been working on this for over a decade. This is what I advocated to @jay.bsky.team for 5 years ago. It would be a private CHAMP repo next to MST one.

If anyone is looking for open-source, self-hostable, E2EE storage and sharing come join @peergos.org We have portable accounts, automated migration (keeping all access and friends), offline support. There are lots of apps like media players, document editors, calendar and you can write your own too!

It's been almost 12 years in the making, but we finally released v1.0.0! github.com/Peergos/web-... This release features desktop installers, lots of fixes and performance improvements, French, Spanish and Polish translations, big fixes and improvements to the sync client. #privacy #encryption

If anyone is looking for open source, audited, end-to-end encrypted storage and sharing then come join us at @peergos.org