Diode Collab - not fully open source but network and client are all open source. It has dramatic privacy commitment (stores no data on servers, decentralized user-to-user routing, no PII/phone/emails). Diode team just added STUN/TURN to the network last month and streaming will come soon. https://collab.diode.io
Hey there - we'll be posting some videos soon - agree it is not a great experience to have to click or install something without understanding what will happen. Thanks for the feedback.
Hey theon144 - one of the differences seems to be public shares. Diode Drive is able to share files with anyone/everyone even if they don't have Diode Drive installed. (send them a link)
e.g. If you need to send a file to someone and it is >25MB, not easy to do with email - Diode Drive makes it easy without having to upload the file to the cloud.
There are similarities for file sync between shared devices, but one of the big differences is that Diode Drive also enables sharing files with anyone by sending them a link (even if they don't have Diode Drive installed). Any of the sync'd devices that has the file can serve the share.
Correct - storage can be done on a PC or a server system - https://support.diode.io/article/vr156n18cf-is-diodedrive-un.... I personally run some of my personal Zones with a raspberry pi connected to a USB drive as an always-on backup. Enterprise implementations would use whatever server (or private or even public cloud) based storage is appropriate for them.
Those are mostly about using a pool of 3rd party storage for decentralized cloud-based storage, and the "clients" for them are more suited to a patient and tech-savvy person.
Diode Drive is a small app that can run on almost every system, and doesn't use unknown 3rd party cloud-based resources - it uses only the systems you control (or trust) for its resources. So it has benefits in terms of intentionality, regionality, and compliance. Also, since Diode Drive is implemented on the Diode Network, there are many adjacent capabilities it can support.
Nothing wrong with using the CLI, but the CLI is a more general purpose tool for exercising / leveraging the Diode Network, while Diode Drive is tailored to file / folder sharing/collaboration/backup. The CLI doesn't yet support all of the file-specific capabilities implemented in Diode Drive.
I am an early adopter and I've tried tens of thousands of products and services during launch. You should put a much bigger effort on the UX. I'm really confused and if I'm confused, the regular folk will just not wanna touch it with a ten-foot pole!
Thanks for the feedback, we 110% agree - a UI update is coming in the next 2 weeks that is a first step. Please shoot us any specific feedback you have! https://t.me/diode_chain
Although the username is just an alias to a public key, it is almost unavoidable to have to use one's username (for example to join a Zone). So, we have support for multi-user single-app coming so different profiles can be applied to different zones so you can use "nikolay" for friends & family, and "myprofessionalhandle" for work stuff, and "myincognitohandleN" for other stuff.
I empathize - blockchain's benefits do suffer greatly from the behavior of many practitioners. It is wise to carefully evaluate...
However, doing even certain simple things, like securing time (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/579.pdf), benefit from hardened consensus. Our background is in high reliability IoT infrastructure, so we got here not by bullchain hype, but by discovering and leveraging certain unique technology benefits that directly contribute to allowing solutions like Diode Drive to exist.
