Hey my interplanetary friends,
My name is Stephen Traiforos.
I have been working on File Orbit for the last 6 months. I am excited to announce its Alpha release :)
What is File Orbit?
File Orbit is a combination of BlueSkys AT Proto, and IPFS Private swarm, so not relying on DHT for peer discovery. Leveraging Personal Data Servers [PDS] to facilitate peer discovery which the product refers to as Places.
It allows family and friends to share their storage with you free of charge, for example my friend has a 10TB NAS setup he can share 200GB with me and I him so we can have some redundancy for our most valuable documents/memories.
Why File Orbit?
I used to host my own NextCloud but my MiniPC died and I asked myself why should my backups not be accessible via the UI too?! So I set out to make all backup locations function as a UX and functional replica avoiding complex restoration processes. Just get the home server back online when you can until then the data stored at your siblings NAS or desktop can serve the important files you replicated for safety. When its live the server will sync with its peers and be back up to date in no time with little hassle, and peace of mind.
A part of the https://fileorbit.cloud is Safety-Net storage, if you are not tech savvy or do not want to run a home lab just install the desktop app on MacOS (Intel only, ARM coming soon), Windows, Linux and connect to the cloud.
The Mission
Build Web3 infrastructure that allows us all to participate and own the internet not some corporations. Currently Web 2.0 is brittle and not protocol based making it centralized and not resilient. My dream is that we can create P2P software that takes the miss-incentivized infrastructure that focuses on sovereignty and offers services like SaaS hosting only as a convenience not a necessity.
P.S. As I announce File Orbit to different channels/audiences I want to keep a record here on leaflet :)