> Okay, so whoever wrote the text for your website is a liar. > So, it's not free. I'm paying for storage one way or another -- either by keeping it all on my always-on devices, or by paying you to pin it.

Not the author, I don't think you can accuse them of lying. I suppose you could use any provider to pin stuff. There might be free IPFS pinning services and non-free ones. You may not need to use AnyType at all.

> So, when I'm not on the same LAN as the computer, Anytype is not only _not_ peer-to-peer by default, but also Anytype gets to see when people write data and learn how much data they wrote.

I don't agree with your assessment at all. It is ok in P2P to have intermediary nodes that handle pinning, hosting, mirroring, propagation etc when the node is offline. That's the only way P2P can be viable.

What's important is that the protocols and standards are open. And that you can choose your own providers to handle the above mentioned services (pinning, mirroring etc). That seems to be the case here. You're criticism is unnecessarily acute.

My feed back would be to be clearer on how it works - because your initial set of users are going to be more technically proficient.

Jude, thanks for the criticism. I’ll clarify a few things (however, Jeswin here actually covered all the answers really well, thank you Jeswin): > So, it's not free. I'm paying for storage one way or another -- either by keeping it all on my always-on devices, or by paying you to pin it. We meant that you don’t need to pay anytype anything when you use your own disk space or your own resources. > So, when I'm not on the same LAN as the computer, Anytype is not only _not_ peer-to-peer by default, but also Anytype gets to see when people write data and learn how much data they wrote. As Jeswin mentioned, these nodes are part of p2p model. What’s important is that these nodes cannot read users’ data (on top Anytype does not have central registry of users, so does not know who is who) and finally also as Jeswin mentioned it will be possible to change the default nodes provided by Anytype or disable them at all (in exchange of degraded reliability).

Based on this discussion, we will add a more detailed explanation of how it works to our site.