[egeozcan]

It will be. Any time you offer something that allows anonymous uploads & shares (hell, sometimes even if you don't allow share, people will share accounts), it will be a silo 95% full of material that's illegal in practically every corner of the world.

If you play the good citizen and encrypt the files, giving the key to the owners, then you also don't have any means to preemptively detect and delete that stuff, you just keep waiting on some law agency knocking at your door. Also, if you openly say "hey I'll peek into your files to see if they are legal", then they will be the ones encrypting. Disallow that? It's a nightmare to detect and abusers are really, really creative! So much dedication too!

And it's not just CSAM, there will be detailed instructions on practically any illegal thing you couldn't even imagine.

It's bad, really bad, and I've grown to accept that small, closed community services (best with real-world connections) are the only way forward.

[fragmede]

Hell, there's an active post about Google drive being blocked in Italy for content being hosted on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901168

[alias_neo]

I wrote something similar as a toy project a while back, it's open source, and I host a "demo" version of it, but for fear of all of this, I limited it to only kilobytes of data and have the links expire after an hour.

I run it on my LAN for my own use, which is what I think it's best for, but I really don't like having something like this on the web.

Luckily, I've never advertised or shown it off so nobody but myself uses it, but I'll probably take down the demo site too, soon.

EDIT: Typo

[fragmede]

It's sad that you don't have Internet friends that you trust enough to share that with after writing all that code. Maybe open source it but don't link to your demo instance? It's more sad that the Internet is like that. There are a couple of really neat quirky projects out there that I only know about through word of mouth because the open Internet is not to be trusted. The projects are behind a login wall, so it's not like they're discoverable either.

[alias_neo]

The name of the project is its domain so I'd have to separate them out, which is why I've kept the demo site online for years now, despite basically no usage, I'm also a big fan of being able to try something before you go through the effort of deploying it yourself.

The project is already open-source on Github, but I don't actively link to it in public forums because I don't want to have to deal with it being used for questionable/illegal content, which is also the reason I haven't added some of the features I'd like to, and severely limited the size and duration for the demo site.

It's been a nice toy project, I added multiple architectures support for the Docker image builds when I was working out how to do that, manifests to deploy it in Kubernetes when I was first learning that and even made it a Nix flake when I first started playing with NixOS; The code itself is written in Go with a goal of using zero external (outside of standard library) dependencies, keeping the code small and clean for non-programmers to be able to understand and uses some Go features that were new/interesting to me at the time they were added.

It'd need to grow a lot and forgo some of those goals for me to add the features I would like to see, but for something nobody will use, and I use quite sparingly myself, there's no need.

[guerrilla]

> It's bad, really bad, and I've grown to accept that small, closed community services (best with real-world connections) are the only way forward.

Our first technology, community, serves a purpose after all.