Premise: I'm not interested in setting up a server and maintaining it, but I am interested in storing my data on services that can promise, or even better, guarantee, privacy and security.
I have looked at Tahoe-LAFS for a few years now, along with the paid service. In my observations over the last few years, the paid service is getting almost zero attention from the creators. Initially they had it at an enormous cost (like $1 per GB per month) compared to other competitors. In the recent times it has moved to other schemes that are still expensive for many people ($25 per month).
Their products, or rather services, are rarely updated and remain in the TBA (to be announced) status for far too long while other competitors (the "privacy conscious" ones like SpiderOak that cannot truly guarantee it like Tahoe-LAFS can as well as the "what's privacy?" services like Dropbox, Crashplan, Box, Google, Microsoft and Apple, to name just a few) are moving ahead much faster and bringing down prices.
I'm willing to pay a decent enough premium to help privacy guaranteeing services survive and thrive, but this kind of pricing and sluggishness in introducing services from leastauthority.com makes it seem like they don't really want many users to sign up.
I have looked at Tahoe-LAFS for a few years now, along with the paid service. In my observations over the last few years, the paid service is getting almost zero attention from the creators. Initially they had it at an enormous cost (like $1 per GB per month) compared to other competitors. In the recent times it has moved to other schemes that are still expensive for many people ($25 per month).
Their products, or rather services, are rarely updated and remain in the TBA (to be announced) status for far too long while other competitors (the "privacy conscious" ones like SpiderOak that cannot truly guarantee it like Tahoe-LAFS can as well as the "what's privacy?" services like Dropbox, Crashplan, Box, Google, Microsoft and Apple, to name just a few) are moving ahead much faster and bringing down prices.
I'm willing to pay a decent enough premium to help privacy guaranteeing services survive and thrive, but this kind of pricing and sluggishness in introducing services from leastauthority.com makes it seem like they don't really want many users to sign up.