Show HN: SocialVault – Decentralized and encrypted storage for Facebook data

by dbrereton • 7 years ago

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magnamerc• 7 years ago

Why use PoW in combination with PoB (proof of burn) instead of using a dBFT style PoS like tendermint for the blockstack chain?

fuckyougoogle• 7 years ago

This website does not load on Firefox Android, just a blank white screen and a chat box. Maybe not requiring me to use a Google product would be a good start.

dang• 7 years ago

Please don't use trollish usernames. That means trolling every thread the account posts to.

personjerry• 7 years ago

Or I could just save my data to my computer?

dbrereton4• 7 years ago

Yes, but if you have a large amount of data then it may take up a good chunk of your hard drive space. SocialVault allows you to store these files online, and also provides a specialized file explorer for Facebook data.

JetSpiegel• 7 years ago

So, you are competing with Google Drive?

Apparently not Nextcloud, since it doesn't seem you can self-host this.

noxToken• 7 years ago

What is the use case for this? If I download all of my data from Facebook, why would I want to upload it to another product or service elsewhere?

If your killer feature is allowing me to browse my data with a user-friendly interface (instead of a clob of data on local disk), I think you need a demo, video, or even a .gif showcasing it. You have an image that hints at it, but you never actually sell it. Someone who quickly scrolls down your main page might miss the "browse" portion of your product in its entirety.

dbrereton4• 7 years ago

The use case is that if you're leaving Facebook, you can keep all your data/memories. And you would upload it for the same reason that you upload your photos to google photos, because it's a large amount of files to store locally, and also harder to browse.

I think you're right, the landing page does not do a good job of explaining that. Will work on improving it.

Canada2• 7 years ago

Unless there's a client I can run locally, it's not decentralized in any meaningful way. Needs a link to the means I can sign up, login, and use this without relying on your web server at all.

rakoo• 7 years ago

Perkeep (https://perkeep.org/) has a similar but broader goal: store all the data you would typically store on social networks or in a backup service and be able to access/search it from any browser: tweets, Pinterest locations, photos, files, docs, whatever

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