[lucideer]

I've tried perkeep out but couldn't really figure out its goal or purpose. It seems to be built on a lot of interesting theoretical ideas of generalised storage without an actual current application. In particular there's some talk on their homepage about software archeologists being able to reverse engineer the format easily in future, but that seems a little presumptuous if they don't find a proper use case between now and that future. Right now it just seems like a less convenient alternative to a filesystem.

I had a related thought recently when trying out the SecureScuttlebutt social network: ssb seems like a format that could fill the intended use case of Perkeep (throwing all your stuff in a database) with the added advantages of (a) having broader applications today, (b) having a wider range of mature db clients and (c) having a well-functioning existing hosted ecosystem for cross-device syncing.

This isn't ssb's intended use case and I haven't tried it yet but I intend to.

[StavrosK]

Yeah, I remember hearing about it (then called Camlistore) a decade or so ago, and I visited the home page and saw "if you're a developer, you can probably get some utility out of it". You'd think that, after ten years, they'd have made something that the average user can at least install.