Right now, we have a consumer, provider model of the internet. The internet in the 90s was very different, and looked much more peer-to-peer.

The higher level sharing and storage that we have now through services such as Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, etc, could have been built in a peer-to-peer way, on top of things like Peergos.

I do not think that Peergos will necessarily be the exact technology that a new, decentralized version of internet technologies will be built on, but we are building the infrastructure and knowledge needed to be ready for power and economics shifts online.

It's a place for you to store your stuff, where you control who see's what. You get fine grained access control (per file or directory) all enforced cryptographically. We try hard to hide metadata as well - like file names and sizes, directory structure, your social graph. It doesn't inherently depend on DNS or the TLS certificate authorities for operation (clearly using the public web interface does, but you can also run it locally).