I’m aware of databases that support HA, but the vast majority of self-hosted apps I’ve encountered use file storage, even if they have a database as well. It sounds like you’re proposing shared storage like an NFS share. But if you’re upgrading nodes, at some point you have to upgrade the node hosting the shared storage right? Wouldn’t that take down all services? Unless you use a distributed storage system, but I’ve heard those can get very complicated…

have you found many self-hosted services that suppprt that kind of HA? I can’t imagine services like torrent clients allowing you to stream writes to one node while replicating to the other, though maybe I’m misunderstanding the setup

ok first off, this community is about self-hosting, there just happens to be a lot of overlap between people who self-host and people who care about privacy.

And if you thought privacy was about distrust, that is a very unhealthy view. Privacy-minded folk simply have different principles than the mainstream. But if somebody comes along that shares those principles, then trust can be earned.

OP’s product is open-source and self-hostable. This is aligned with the community. I’m not saying to throw money at the product before it’s released, but it’s worth keeping an eye on, and showing support for.

I actually know somebody that was fined quite a bit for torrenting, so idk what you mean by failed meme. The ISP absolutely does collaborate with copyright lawyers. So if copyright lawyers with enough money want to take down a nintendo switch emulator, and they got the IP of the dev, they cound find the real person behind it easily.

Ok so you’re a troll then. Fearmongering doesn’t help the community. If you’re against something give evidence. There’s a balance between fearmongering and blind hype.

this reply adds nothing. Please explain your position

How do you send a threat to an IP address?

Unless, you’re thinking ISP involvement

There’s many ways to track somebody down via IP address, but yes ISPs can corroborate. You ever heard of people getting letters from the ISP for torrenting? You think the ISPs actually care about piracy? They are forced by legal pressure.

If the threat model is “lawyer”, developers will be fine

The threat model is massive fines and potential prison, depending on how the court case goes. Look up the Yuzu nintendo switch emulator and how that legal battle went. And I’m not arguing that those developers were the brightest of the bunch. I’m saying that those developers could use the privacy that Tor offers.

bittorrent will not be the right protocol for this anyway.

Bittorrent works well enough. Bittorrent works fine over I2P and is used plenty. Better to get something up and running before starting to design bespoke protocols.

P2P already gives you anti-censorship

until a lawyer joins the swarm and has the IP of every node. See which node pushes commits to the swarm first, and you found the dev. Send a couple of threats to the dev and watch the project grind to a halt.

Plugging into Tor or I2P is a easy way to give network anonymity, no need to re-invent the wheel. Though it seems like Radicle already supports Tor and I2P so not entirely sure what OP aims to do

You don’t have to pre-order, just wait until it’s released and buy it then. And in this case you can get a raspi and test the product for yourself, so why spread FUD?

Matrix. Bitwarden. Nextcloud. There are many examples of open-source, self-hosted applications that have for-profit companies that offer to host them for you as a service. Now if you use one of those Nextcloud providers to store your notes, can that providers read all your data? Of course. But for people who don’t want to self-host, it’s often a more trusted option than Google.

I don’t see the point of forking Radicle. Radicle itself barely has any users, how many users do you expect your fork to have? Think about re-writing Radicle in another language later. It’s not certain Radicle will even exist a year from now

Anonymity makes sense in this case. Radicle is often proposed as a solution to the censorship of projects in other repos, things like Nintendo Switch emulators, Hayase streaming client, etc. These projects want to remain anonymous to avoid legal threats on their actual identity

These comments are why privacy products will always be behind. Why open-source is full of dead projects. These people are just trying to make a living off making privacy-focused products. And all the comments are like “They’re a for-profit company? They had marketing material prepped to reply to people’s comments?!”.

The code is open-source, self-hostable, built using commodity hardware (raspi), and they’re just trying to make it sustainable by providing an optional paid service. This is not the enemy.

I think they’re just a privacy-focused startup that just wants to make a living off their work

I believe the UK too

I remember hearing the opposite, that strikes with a set duration were ineffective because management could just wait it out…

Second this one. I watched it months ago and still think about it. Be careful when you look it up. Tons of spoilers everywhere. At most just watch the official trailer (don’t read the comments) and decide if you want to watch it. It’s about a son with schizophrenia and his mother

how many countries has Signal pulled out of so far? I keep hearing about it

If they got their hands on a machine would they be able to replicate it? If it was such a massive advantage I imagine they would just take one by force, I mean look at how the US just took out two national leaders

I’m surprised they can’t just smuggle the chip designs and factory designs from Taiwan, they’re so close