We’ve reinstated our demo server so people can try it out for free. This is linked from the signup page. Also, unlike pretty much all other similar services our server is 100% open source and self-hostable. So those capable of self hosting can also try it out that way. We aim for zero lock-in and easy migration to a different host, whilst still keeping all your data and social connections.
The privacy policy and terms are only relevant to the peergos.net server. As peergos is self-hostable, anyone, including other companies, can run their own server with their own privacy policy. Users can still share with anyone on any server.
If there is enough demand, we could add support for more payment options, it’s mainly a question of resources.
Thanks for signing up. I’m happy to answer any questions here. Or I can offer a guided tour where you can ask questions I’ll talk you through some of the hard to find features or tech if you want.
After using Peergos for the last few months, I am liking the features I have not focused on the private social network aspects, but I have played around with the storage, sharing/secret links, and markdown editor/browser and they work well for my use cases. Overall it reminds me of CryptPad/CryptDrive, although I understand that the feature set focuses on different things.
We’ve added a block based notes app. You can see an example note file in the link below. Remember, anyone can add their own custom apps, even on our server. We explain how this works here: A better web These apps are private, sandboxed and served E2EE just like all other data in Peergos.
Couldn’t find that info easily, so asking here @ianopolous : Are there containers published on any registry to run this with Docker, Podman or something similar?
In light of the recent Skiff acquisition I’d like to reiterate that we do not have VC investors. We actively build to protect users against us being bought or shut down by giving them easy exit (automatic migration, open source servers and self hostable, and portable data and identity (host independent).
I really like the introduction tutorial, and it’s pretty well designed as you’d expect.
The product feels rock solid, which is quite unusual with a lot of the privacy based approaches we see. Personally I would be happy to add this and I could see myself using it.
It feels like the best usecase for this would be a small “pod” or unit/workgroup, maybe between a few friends or employees of a company.
Thank you for trying it out @dngray. The cool thing about using a p2p and self-authenticated protocol is it doesn’t matter what host you are on - you can friend and share etc. with anyone on any other server. The idea is that those who want more control can self host, but most people can sign up to someone else’s server without any loss of privacy.