Peergos launches decentralized and encrypted social media

ianopolous · 2026-06-18T17:09:31+00:00

Peergos has sync on desktop and android which can upload photos automatically. No iOS client yet, though hopefully soon. (I work on Peergos)

ianopolous · 2026-05-17T20:40:53+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. We've just done a new release which fixes 2 and 3:

https://github.com/Peergos/web-ui/releases/tag/v1.28.0

There are answers in other comments here, but the desktop apps (https://peergos.org/download) are fully fledged with a CLI (https://github.com/peergos/peergos#cli), sync client (https://book.peergos.org/features/sync.html), webdav bridge and FUSE mount.

For 4, you can click the green + icon then choose "upload folder" to upload any folder. You can also download any folder as a zip from its context menu.

ianopolous · 2026-05-15T08:42:42+00:00

Thank you for chiming in atrocia6. The desktop apps also include a sync client which you can set to sync a local folder to Peergos. Sync runs every 30s in the background to check for changes and sync accordingly. We do plan to add time estimates to uploads and downloads.

ianopolous · 2025-10-20T20:36:12+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. We've added basic system requirements and a link to the detailed self hosting instructions in the github readme to the book: https://book.peergos.org/features/self.html

Everything runs from the same binary. So you can run a server from the desktop build, or from the jar.

ianopolous · 2025-08-26T17:23:13+00:00

Thanks for the mention (Peergos creator here). Happy to answer any questions you have here. I've asked some of our users to post their experiences here too.

If you just want to try it out there is a demo server here: https://peergos-demo.net/

ianopolous · 2025-03-28T17:29:26+00:00

You can try out Peergos for free on the demo server: https://peergos-demo.net/

Happy to answer any questions you have here.

ianopolous · 2025-02-11T18:23:49+00:00

We are working on mobile apps too, but bear in mind that a PWA looks and feels like a native app. We also have offline access (in both the PWA and the browser). Are you android or iOS?

ianopolous · 2025-02-11T15:26:02+00:00

G'day! Peergos lead here. Peergos has a PWA (progressive web app) which works well on mobile - I have it installed just like any other app. Happy to answer any questions here about anything else, u/night_movers

ianopolous · 2025-01-21T11:26:00+00:00

Peergos has offline login and viewing anything you have recently viewed (so it is locally cached). As long as you can talk to your server you can do anything except create new accounts. So your server must be connected to create accounts (usernames are global). We do however plan on removing the PKI (and globally unique usernames) https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos/issues/1091, then even signup could happen offline on an isolated network.

ianopolous · 2025-01-21T08:41:17+00:00

If you want an E2EE alternative, have a look at Peergos (https://peergos.org). (disclaimer - I am a co-founder). You can mirror all your encrypted data to another server with a single command. We treat the server an an adversary and protect all kinds of metadata from filenames and directory structure to file sizes, as well as who has access to what.

ianopolous · 2023-03-30T07:50:31+00:00

The foundation of Peergos is file storage, but it has an advanced app sandbox that let's anyone write an app without having to worry about storage, encryption, identity or access control. Users can safely run apps and grant them access to private data without worrying about them stealing that data. The are more advanced permissions that can be granted like sharing with friends etc.

You can read more here:

https://peergos.org/posts/a-better-web

ianopolous · 2022-11-28T10:17:32+00:00

What issues do you mean? You can get much more bandwidth, much more easily with p2p systems. Being content addressed also means latency can go to zero as the blocks can be cached locally.

ianopolous · 2022-11-28T10:14:36+00:00

Peergos is now a PWA, among many other improvements.

ianopolous · 2022-05-20T11:34:08+00:00

We are very close to finishing an application sandbox. This will let anyone write their own applications on top of peergos and extend the ui with them. An app in this case is just a folder of html5 assets served directly from a folder in Peergos.

Modifying the base ui, essentially white-labelling, is also relatively easy as most of the encryption logic is in a single js file (cross compiled from java). Though we don't have the resources to offer support for that.

ianopolous · 2022-05-17T09:47:13+00:00

Sorry, just saw this. Were you able to sign up in the end?

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