Is anyone following what Aral Balkan & co are doing at https://ind.ie ?

They're crowdfunding development of a phone but also software that doesn't involve using privately owned cloud services to share messages, data etc.

I saw Aral give a talk on 'Digital Feudalism' a year or so back and he's quite a charismatic presenter but the resources he has make Jolla look like a megacorp.

The software side so far is 'Pulse' which is what was once Syncthing, Waystone which is a place to meetup and Heartbeat, a peer-to-peer social network.

The hardware is a mockup just now with nothing expected before end of 2016.



The crowdfunding has just started and seems to be doing well.

https://ind.ie/be-the-hope/