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the software looks really good for an open source project, and would probably be very useful for collaborating on documents.
they store your encrypted data on ipfs, so in theory it's decentralized and there's no reliance on any one party. except in ipfs you still need a host to keep your file alive while the rest of the network doesn't care about it, which would be this company, hence why there's a storage limit. i don't see any options to self-host or switch host, though technically the software is open source so you can just change the default host in the code. there might have been an easier option that i missed, in fact i really hope there is