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What's New in Peergos in 2025

ianopolous — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:10:36 +0000

Article URL: https://peergos.org/posts/2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883906

Points: 1

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New comment by ianopolous in "Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters"

ianopolous — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:36:40 +0000

@lxpz It would be great to do a follow up to this blog post with the latest Peergos. All the issues with baseline bandwidth and requests have gone away, even with federation on. The baseline is now 0, and even many locally initiated requests will be served directly from a Peergos cache without touching S3.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2022-ipfs/

Let's talk!

New comment by ianopolous in "Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd"

ianopolous — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:20:19 +0000

You might be interested in Peergos [0][1] (creator here) which has official Linux apps, is E2EE, fully open source (including the server), and self-hostable. It's also recommended by privacy guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cloud/#peergos

[0] https://peergos.org

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

New comment by ianopolous in "Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd"

ianopolous — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:12:35 +0000

You might be interested in Peergos [0][1] which is E2EE, fully open source (including the server), and self hostable. We've been audited by Cure53 and Radically Open Security.

[0] https://peergos.org

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

New comment by ianopolous in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

ianopolous — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:15:54 +0000

You might like Peergos, which is E2EE as well. Disclosure (I work on it).

https://peergos.org

You can try it out easily here: https://peergos-demo.net

Our iOS app is still in the works still though.

New comment by ianopolous in "Peergos: An Open-Source Google Drive Alternative That You Can Self-Host"

ianopolous — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:16:17 +0000

There is a built-in mirror function in peergos you can use to mirror your user, or an entire server you control to another server yes: https://github.com/peergos/peergos?tab=readme-ov-file#mirror and we recently add this to the ui itself you can request/pay for a live mirror on another server: https://peergos.net

At the moment if your client accesses a server with a mirror, and your primary is offline, then you can read, but not write. Writes are proxied to your primary, and thus need your primary to be accessible.

New comment by ianopolous in "Peergos: An Open-Source Google Drive Alternative That You Can Self-Host"

ianopolous — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:18:12 +0000

Yes your files stay on your server, unless you share them with a friend on another server. It basically just uses libp2p as an internode communication protocol, and you need auth to retrieve ciphertext blocks.

Peergos: An Open-Source Google Drive Alternative That You Can Self-Host

ianopolous — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:13:40 +0000

Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/peergos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702937

Points: 4

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New comment by ianopolous in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

ianopolous — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:56:50 +0000

You might be interested in Peergos (https://peergos.org) - creator here.

An old write up is here: https://itsfoss.com/peergos/

New comment by ianopolous in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

ianopolous — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:55:11 +0000

Thanks! I'll send you an email.

The good news is Peergos also has serializable transactional modifications. This comes from us storing signed roots in a db on your home server (not ipns). We also have our own minimal ipfs implementation that uses 1000x fewer resources than kubo, aka go-ipfs.

New comment by ianopolous in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

ianopolous — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:40:53 +0000

Thanks! You can play around with it on https://peergos-demo.net

New comment by ianopolous in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

ianopolous — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:47:26 +0000

We should talk. This very similar to how apps use E2EE data in Peergos. Maybe we can join forces. https://peergos.org/posts/a-better-web

New comment by ianopolous in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

ianopolous — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:37:48 +0000

You may like Peergos (creator here) https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media

The Evolution of Garbage Collectors: JVM vs. Go vs. Rust Latency Shootout

ianopolous — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://codemia.io/blog/path/The-Evolution-of-Garbage-Collectors-From-Javas-CMS-to-ZGC-and-a-JVM-vs-Go-vs-Rust-Latency-Shootout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423821

Points: 1

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New comment by ianopolous in "Slow social media"

ianopolous — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:28:39 +0000

I love this. It is close to what we've built with Peergos [0].

1. People have to accept you as a follower, and the default is bi-directional.

2. There are no visible follower/friend counts.

3. Chronological feed which has an end (no infinite scroll)

4. No arbitrary character limit

5. No analytics (enforced by E2EE)

We don't have a max friends/number of posts per day though.

[0] https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media

Global Replication Made Easy

ianopolous — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:51:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/talks/2025/global-replication/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210955

Points: 2

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New comment by ianopolous in "Introduction to AT Protocol"

ianopolous — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:06:38 +0000

Peergos has a private data solution that is compatible with (and predates) atproto (dag-cbor, portable data and accounts and social graph).

New comment by ianopolous in "The future is not self-hosted"

ianopolous — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:06:15 +0000

You're absolutely right. We need a big push on marketing and PR (Peergos founder here). We are self, grant and customer funded and a not-for-profit so we necessarily need to grow more slowly than a VC backed company, but that lets us keep our incentives aligned with our users. Our aim is absolutely ease of use, there shouldn't be a usability tradeoff for privacy in our view. We do already have some very non-technical users who love it.

New comment by ianopolous in "The future is not self-hosted"

ianopolous — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:44:20 +0000

You might be interested in Peergos which lets you easily live mirror to another instance and everything is E2EE.

New comment by ianopolous in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

ianopolous — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:55:04 +0000

Yep, if that's possible for your service that works. If the service doesn't want your email and/or doesn't have access to your data, e.g. an E2EE service where account reset is impossible, then that's not an option.

The supposition for all this is that the service wants to use passwords for whatever reason. In that case, generate them for the user.