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

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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 ?

I haven't; until today.

> If so, what do you think of it ?

Sounds like it's trying to be dropbox/g-drive/b2/etc ... but
"centaralized"

>
> Is it a "trustless" (= no trust needed at all) storage ?

Doesn't sound like.

> [...]
> 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.

"your" PC presumably becomes that "central server(tm)".

> [...]
> Any site to get better documented ?
Their "Documentation" link seems pretty alright -- but I haven't read it
in depth.

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