Thoughts on Fileverse?

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Hi,

I’m sure some of you will have heard of this relatively newcomer to the scene. They claim to be a decentralized and privacy-oriented collaboration suite. But I couldn’t find any discussion or review of them on here.

Would love to hear some expert opinions :slight_smile:

Thank you

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The website itself does not appear to be self-hosted has dependencies on questionable crypto websites and Google fonts. No mention of anything being open source. Nextcloud + OnlyOffice seem highly preferable at the moment as they are true FOSS self-hostable projects that have been around for a long time.

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Fileverse · GitHub they do link their Github on their website. They do seem to be open source no?

Also, how do you discover these dependencies? I’d love to ask them about them. Cause, besides Cryptpad (which is also built on OnlyOffice afaik) they seem to be a good and much needed contender to Google Suite

And from my experience, Nextcloud and selfhosting setups wouldn’t work for vast majority of people.

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Also, how do you discover these dependencies?

NoScript, uBlock, uMatrix (and other tools) will show what third party requests a website makes. A lot of websites do it, but it doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in privacy claims.

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Nextcloud and selfhosting setups wouldn’t work for vast majority of people.

Not everyone has to run this on their own computer; the idea is that organizations such as companies, universities and schools each run an instance for their own needs (possibly along other things such as email or a Matrix instance).

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Could you give me examples of these dependencies? I tried to look for them.

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@Tux any luck?

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I will try to not be too harsh on my review but given the main author’s profile it’s nothing more than:

  • hype hype hype is the main goal of the projects, very founder mindset that’s about “SHIP FAST!”
  • latest tech in the Web dev space too, shipped at light speed and with the goal of making a lot of noise on Twitter, not sure about how sturdy and mindful they are about long-term stability
  • from a purely developer POV, I am not sure if it is fully slope but looking at the dDocs.new packages, there is nothing very sturdy and project will probably just be dead in 6 months when the maintainers are bored of this current project

Overall, nothing really interesting to see here that could be taken more seriously than any random over-the-weekend kind of project that is based on memes and vibes.

Tried my best to be nice with the above paragraph. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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