Https://remotestorage.io/ was a protocol intended for this. IIRC the visison was that all applications could implement this and you could provide that application with your remotestorage URL, which you could self host. I looked into this some time ago as I was fed up with WebDAV being the only viable open protocol for file shares/synchronization (especially after hosting my own NextCloud instance, which OOMed…

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3 months ago

Not to be confused with https://remotestorage.io/.

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8 months ago

This doesn’t support the various consumer cloud storage APIs, but you’ve just reminded me of a project I ran into years ago that seems to still be around: https://remotestorage.io/ There’s also Solid which attempts to do something similar: https://solidproject.org/.

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9 months ago

I have seen one web app uses the remote storage library. It does fit your criteria, but I don’t think there is much traction yet. [0]: https://remotestorage.io/.

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9 months ago

RemoteStorage https://remotestorage.io/ seems to be trying to do this too I also really like the https://sandstorm.io approach which goes a little farther beyond.

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10 months ago

Svelte Journaling App using Remote Storage (https://remotestorage.io/) for daily journaling stores your entries in Dropbox, Google drive, or a RemoteStorage host.

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about 2 years ago

All I can say is… I’ve seen it all before now? On “web2”, nothing ever prevented someone using cert/key based auth, and there were libraries to abstract over proprietary APIs, but if you didn’t want to go that way, there is also https://remotestorage.io/ et al biggest hugest problem though: no one cares, go ask your mom about the difference between web1, 2, and 3.

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over 2 years ago

Not sure how many in the community are aware of decade-old efforts such as https://remotestorage.io which is calling itself an unhosted 0-back-end.

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over 2 years ago

Interesting you guys are at a stage when you want to add a payments layer to your service. I just finished doing that to a somewhat competing FOSS, https://remotestorage.io. Somewhat competing because you guys offer graph queries and the app developer owns the user data, the standard paradigm. Anyways, to that end, I integrated https://pay2my.app into their FOSS.

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over 2 years ago

Kinda find it (un)funny that “web2” has this somewhat solved already? Never really took off much, but there are already multiple options off the top of my head, webdav, https://remotestorage.io/, no doubt there are others.

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over 2 years ago

This is a very similar setup to other projects like https://remotestorage.io.

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over 2 years ago

You might be interested in these: – https://github.com/fiatjaf/tiddlywiki-remotestorage-server – https://github.com/fiatjaf/tiddlywiki-remotestorage A TiddlyWiki plugin for saving tiddlers to https://remotestorage.io/ and also a server to fetch them from any public remoteStorage on demand and serve them as HTML to visitors (for sharing). I think my server at https://tiddly.fiatjaf.com still works. You can just…

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almost 3 years ago

An important part of this shift has been to bring people together in the form of events, so I looked around me to see where I could contribute. Remotestorage is one of the primary technologies I use in my apps, so I began hosting monthly hangouts. Zero Data seems to be flying away from my nest and turning into a community project, so I started to facilitate some swap meets. I also enjoy getting to know…

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almost 3 years ago

There are several technical affordances to this at the moment. Local-first or edge apps enable the whole experience to take place in the security of one’s own device and can continue offline without internet connection. Zero Data protocols like remoteStorage, Fission, and Solidobviate the need to create accounts (because people bring their own data storage) and also enable apps as swappable lenses—”software is the…

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almost 3 years ago

Really wish progressive enhancement was chosen as the first thing, want to get rid of the backend db? ok, two APIs, store to extension-managed DB (e.g. Flatfiles in the home directory, or shunted onto something managed with LDAP, or loaded onto some weird coin thing on a local light node, or etc), or in environments where extensions are fussy / overcomplicated, store to another website via a http api (la…

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about 3 years ago

That’s the thing. I attempted to get into the org productivity zone a while ago but it fell apart the moment I needed mobile support and syncing. Unfortunately, the mobile org clients of the time didn’t support syncing well enough to be viable for my use case – not to mention that all the customization I had painstakingly set up within emacs didn’t transfer to the mobile clients either. I suspect it’s impractical…

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about 3 years ago

Seems to have some overlap (at least conceptually) with https://remotestorage.io/.

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over 3 years ago

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “these services/libraries”, but yes, in Solid, apps need to be explicitly built to support Solid, and data can only be stored in Solid Pods. Although it’s not Solid, an older project is https://remotestorage.io, which is a library that needs to be explicitly used by apps supporting RemoteStorage, but does allow users to store the data on Google Drive or Dropbox too, IIRC.

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over 3 years ago

0data appears to be a curated collection of five best-in-class libraries/frameworks that enable building SPA apps with user controlled data, rather than Big Tech controlled platforms and services. 1. Autonomous Data 2. remoteStorage 3. Solid Project 4. Unhosted 5. Fission [1] https://noeldemartin.github.io/autonomous-data/introduction.html [2] https://remotestorage.io/ [3] https://solidproject.org/ [4]…

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over 3 years ago

RemoteStorage[1] is already a thing. I don’t think anyone’s made a full Word-style document editor for it yet, though. [1]: https://remotestorage.io.

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over 3 years ago