[dominicl]

Hey, cofounder here, thanks for the interest. We just released our beta and I'm happy to answer any questions / take them to improve our site/docs. Here a couple of answers on questions I'm seeing in the comments right now:

Privacy: The clients are operating peer-2-peer and their communication is end-2-end encrypted. Meaning you and your peers host the data. The relay servers if needed are never and can never see your data.

Unlimited Storage: As it's a peer to peer system, there are no 3rd party servers storing any of your data. So it's limited only by your clients capacity

Open Source: The relay network servers are open source on our github site. The GUI client is closed source, you pay for the convenience. We might open source a pure command line client in the future.

Privacy Policy & Terms: They are linked at the bottom of the page: https://diode.io/privacy-policy/ & ttps://diode.io/msa/

I'm happy to answer all questions on this. Keep em coming.

[eslaught]

> you pay for the convenience

I think this is a great business model. I also appreciate the willingness to open source at least some form of client, since that will help build trust (at least with us more technical users) that you're actually doing the encryption right.

As a technical user though, I'd be absolutely terrified of data loss as an early adopter of these sorts of systems. (And note: it's not just about server-side data loss, it's also about all the bizarre ways clients can interact with the host OS/filesystem and the crazy number of edge cases that pop up there.) That's one of the big things keeping me on Dropbox: I know their platform is battle-tested. I wonder if there's a way you can provide more assurance about this?

[buildanduse]

We will be coming out with some easy backup-specific options in the near future - it is a pain today to have to bring on a second peer to backup.

[neolog]

How does it compare to syncthing?

[LeoPanthera]

Virtually identical, as far as I can tell. Been using syncthing for years, it works very well.

[buildanduse]

There are similarities for file sync between shared devices, but one of the big differences is that Diode Drive also enables sharing files with anyone by sending them a link (even if they don't have Diode Drive installed). Any of the sync'd devices that has the file can serve the share.

[djmips]

Hey cofounder, I really hate your name. I sure hope you don't get popular and be another company polluting the language unnecessarily by co-opting common words.