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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 4 minutes ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 5 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  SeanCasGamer (@SeanCasGamer) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Shpigford @Claude There are issues with it that I’ve run into with Dropbox locking files to sync while Claude still works on them. I usually pause sync’ing while I’m doing stuff and then turn it back on when I’m done.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 7 minutes ago

  Drew Houston got rejected by every VC in Silicon Valley. His idea? "Another cloud storage company." The year was 2007. Dropbox was just a simple demo video of files syncing between computers. VCs said the market was too crowded — Microsoft, Google, and Apple all had cloud products. But Houston had spotted something others missed: people didn't want another cloud product. They wanted their files to just work. Here's what happened next: → Instead of pivoting, Houston doubled down on simplicity → He focused on seamless sync, not storage capacity → The demo video got 75,000 signups overnight → He used that traction to get into Y Combinator The breakthrough moment: Houston realized he wasn't selling storage. He was selling the elimination of emailing files to yourself. First investor meeting after YC: Sequoia wrote a $1.2M check. Same VCs who rejected him before suddenly wanted in. The product hadn't changed — the story had. Houston learned to position Dropbox as solving a universal pain point, not competing in cloud storage. Dropbox IPO'd at $10B in 2018. The lesson: Sometimes the market isn't wrong about your category. You just haven't found the right way to explain why you're different. What's the most rejections you've gotten on the same idea before finding the right investor?

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  Deedy (@deedydas) reported 9 minutes ago

  @taufiqintech unclear. enterprises are pretty slow to switch to anything which gives cursor some leeway to catch up. the most dominant products in the enterprise arent necessarily the best ones (e.g. box vs dropbox)

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  The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported 9 minutes ago

  Told properly for the first time @toly. Soviet Ukraine. 13 years at Qualcomm. Dropbox. 4 AM at Cafe Sole with two coffees and a beer. The moment you realized the problem wasn't consensus, it was time itself.

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  No (@cameraplan7) reported 13 minutes ago

  @itskinkerbell drive. If people try to download a photo off of Dropbox in a browser/link, the quality actually goes down. I’ve tested on multiple photos and it doesn’t happen with drive

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  Jasper Polak (@polak_jasper) reported 14 minutes ago

  Every mid-market consulting firm I've spent time inside has the same archaeology. Proposals from 2022 in a partner's Dropbox. Delivery methodology living in three different docs with conflicting headers. Sales call notes in Teams. Post-mortems in a notes app on an iPhone. Client health data in HubSpot. Margin in the finance spreadsheet. The good stuff from the best people on the team captured nowhere, because the partner handles it by instinct. Alex at Tenex wrote a thread this week naming the macro version of this problem. Engineering already has its AI brain (the *** repo). Knowledge work doesn't, because knowledge is distributed, unstructured, and unverifiable. Someone will build the generalized version. Payoff: "Robinhood for knowledge workers." Agree with almost all of it. The part I'd add for services firms: The corpus isn't the problem. You have more context than almost any other business type. Every engagement generates detailed artifacts. Every partner has fifteen years of calibrated judgment. Every proposal has a clear win/loss signal. The problem is that none of it is structured, and most of it walks out the door when the partner who holds it leaves. Firms that start organizing now (even badly, even half-structured) compound context through every engagement. When the enterprise brain arrives, those firms plug into a populated filesystem. Firms that wait plug into an empty one. The tool will get commoditized. The corpus won't. Start the archaeology today. Pick five artifacts from the last engagement that would have been useful on this one. Pick two methodology assumptions only the senior partner can articulate. Write them down somewhere your future brain can find them. The tool is coming. The corpus is what you'll plug into it.

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  daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported 14 minutes ago

  coachella taking down the stream right when i'm at the start of it... okay *******. can someone send me like a link? a dropbox, a mega file, a drive, something?

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  Frankly Frank (@NoFrankingWay) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ElSotong Little of each. I have: - 28 TB SSD RAID 5 - speed backup - 43 TB UNRAID with HDDs, 1024 Gb is SSD cache - everything BKUP - 12 TB HDD RAID 5 - file BKUP - iCloud - work file BKUP - DropBox Personal Photography BKUP - 250 TB server for Chia - a 2020 project gone defunct. So now I have hella storage

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  Shal (@mzshal) reported 19 minutes ago

  @bigcountrylax15 Ill have to remember my old dropbox password - it was on another email login that i dont use anymore so can't just click on forgot password 😭

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  Mr. Judge (@MrJudgeXXX) reported 21 minutes ago

  @TheRitaaBang **** look like a Dropbox folder it’s terrible

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  Kiran J. Holla (@kiranjholla) reported 26 minutes ago

  OK, I've had it with @OneDrive. The sync is so atrociously bad that it just slows down my entire laptop. Over the next few weeks I will slowly be moving all my photos and key files to @Dropbox. Hopefully, Dropbox handles voluminous data better.

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  AISauce (@aisauce_x) reported 27 minutes ago

  @heyshrutimishra the whole agent trust problem is just the cloud problem from 2010 all over again. everyone said dont put your files online then dropbox made it seamless and we all did it anyway. agents will win the same way. not by solving security but by making the risk feel invisible

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  Adam Shurey (@AdamShurey) reported 28 minutes ago

  @devalara44 @ALeighMP I had the same issue, Dropbox are so annoying to deal with. I hope this new legislation helps.