Couldn't this be solved by technical means? All those self-hosted boxes in people's homes could federate. That would allow the friends to upload their photos to an album. If you want to have copies of them on your local hard drive, a config flag could duplicate the data, automatically providing redundancy that's even useful for others. Not everyone wants to run a server at home and thoae who don't want to could rely on some third party, be it a public library, a non-profit, or even a for-profit offering some extra perks. The basic tech could be all the same, even the software stack.

I wonder if there are any startups in that space, there likely are. YC anyone? Whatare the obstacles?

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teiferer 4 days ago | parent [-]

Is Peergos the answer I'm looking for? If so, what's missing is a big push on the business/PR side. They'll need to replicate what Signal did for chat so that even my 80-year old mom can use it.

Any other alternatives?

	▲	ianopolous 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		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.