Re: [OT] decentralized "cloud" storage - Opinions

On 26/06/22 15:58, Soviet_Mario wrote:
> while starting some research about IPFS (interplanetary file 
> system)
> I've come across this "project"
> 
> https://wildland.io/
> 
> Does anybody ever heard of ?
> If so, what do you think of it ?
> 
> Is it a "trustless" (= no trust needed at all) storage ?
> 
> I'm reading that, while decentralized cloud encrypt and 
> split files and store chunks over PCs elsewhere (I still 
> have to figure out which of the many connected to the net is 
> "eligible" to store : my only previous experience was the 
> SEEDING in bittorrent, which seemed rather unreliable since 
> once one has had enough, they simply stop seeding and parts 
> of files may become unavailable).
> But it seems that some central server (to balance the load, 
> to assign bandwidths, track the hashes, assign storage 
> quotas to nodes ... maybe determine if they warrant what 
> they promise by some bonus/malus mechanism) is still needed.
> 
> If that is true, it is not entirely decentralized and 
> "unstoppable" system.
> 
> What do you think of this ?
> 
> Any site to get better documented ?
> 
> TNX
> 
> 
> 

SORRY for double posting ... Thunderbird is having problems 
in posting, so I tried a "workaround" ... I had thought the 
original post hadn't been deployed successfully :\ :\

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