Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life

Perkeep promises to be your digital attic: keep photos, tweets, even 5TB videos forever, under your control. It’s open-source, privacy-first (everything private by default), and aims for “no single point of failure,” meaning your stuff isn’t stuck with one company or one device. But the comments lit up with mixed vibes.

One nostalgic voice, burke, says it’s “not quite abandonware” and calls the stalled momentum a “tragedy,” praising the idea while wondering if the party ended early. The skeptics came swinging: bigfishrunning joked it’s like dumping a library into a giant unsorted pile of loose paper, asking how this beats a normal file system with automatic backups. Meanwhile, spiritplumber flexed the practical angle: a Raspberry Pi file server “mostly works,” so why complicate it?

And then there’s profsummergig, hijacking the thread with a relatable wish: a one‑click way to save each bookmarked page offline so it looks and searches exactly like the real thing. The vibe? Half digital hoarders dreaming of a personal time capsule, half librarians begging for order. Perkeep’s been debated before—see the June 2020 thread and earlier post—and the cycle continues: bold promise, big feelings, and a chorus asking “who’s maintaining this?”