Billions of internet users have traded their digital rights for the convenience of online workspaces like Google Workspace, Notion, and Microsoft 365. These centralized platforms jeopardize people's privacy, creativity, and digital freedom through account and data lock-in mechanisms, intrusive ads, centralized server control, opt-in by default AI integrations, and arbitrary censorship. Fileverse offers privacy-first alternatives that deliver the comfort of familiar apps but with end-to-end encryption, data portability, independence from centralized servers, and local or peer-to-peer storage at their core.