Show HN: SocialVault – Decentralized and encrypted storage for Facebook data

[noxToken]

What is the use case for this? If I download all of my data from Facebook, why would I want to upload it to another product or service elsewhere?

If your killer feature is allowing me to browse my data with a user-friendly interface (instead of a clob of data on local disk), I think you need a demo, video, or even a .gif showcasing it. You have an image that hints at it, but you never actually sell it. Someone who quickly scrolls down your main page might miss the "browse" portion of your product in its entirety.

[dbrereton]

The use case is that if you're leaving Facebook, you can keep all your data/memories. And you would upload it for the same reason that you upload your photos to google photos, because it's a large amount of files to store locally, and also harder to browse.

I think you're right, the landing page does not do a good job of explaining that. Will work on improving it.

[rakoo]

Perkeep (https://perkeep.org/) has a similar but broader goal: store all the data you would typically store on social networks or in a backup service and be able to access/search it from any browser: tweets, Pinterest locations, photos, files, docs, whatever

[magnamerc]

Why use PoW in combination with PoB (proof of burn) instead of using a dBFT style PoS like tendermint for the blockstack chain?

[personjerry]

Or I could just save my data to my computer?

[dbrereton]

Yes, but if you have a large amount of data then it may take up a good chunk of your hard drive space. SocialVault allows you to store these files online, and also provides a specialized file explorer for Facebook data.

[manjana]

It loads for me on Android with Firefox.

[fuckyougoogle]

This website does not load on Firefox Android, just a blank white screen and a chat box. Maybe not requiring me to use a Google product would be a good start.

[dang]

Please don't use trollish usernames. That means trolling every thread the account posts to.