Your files. Your account.

dropb.at

Share and manage text, photos and other files on the AT Protocol. Your data, your server.

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity

My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse

I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.

Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives

Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…

File Garden

Host your files with decency.

Tiny Little Office: the link is the document

A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.

A Social Filesystem — overreacted

Formats over apps.

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public

As the social media landscape changes and a new wave of digital spaces emerges, this Directory is meant to be a resource for our field — a jumping-off-point for further exploration and research for anyone who’s interested in studying, building, stewarding, or simply using digital social platforms. We hope this will inspire creative exploration, spark new collaborations, and highlight important progress.

Three schemes for shared-private storage - Paul's Leaflets

Digital Topology & Economic Power

The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, relocating control toward incumbents at each stage. Enclosure succeeds not by offering users less, but by bundling genuine capability gains with topological restructuring, so that the user cannot accept the improvement without accepting the new relationship of power.

Ente Photos: Store and share your photos with absolute privacy

Ente Photos is the private, secure photo storage app with end-to-end encryption. Cross-platform, open source, and self-hostable. Start with 10GB free.

Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks - Nick's Blog

A self-only space is the smallest shape permissioned data can take: one authority, one member, one repo, and private bookmarks that share a record shape and a write path with public ones.