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For those of us who don't care about business models and who also tolerate that P2P networks may be indeed taken advantage to by a few leeches who refuse to share anything and go out of their way to cheat on their contributions, is there a cloud space like that? Some network where I can say "Mi disco est tu disco". I have 4TB on a self hosting server (100% uptime) I do nothing with, I would gladly let such a network of comrades use them, while I could use 50GB to be stored redundantly (maybe 10x, that's probably overkill) on that same network. If such a network exists, I will happily buy another 8TB drive btw, I'm really happy to share with the community.
You seem to show that the idea is old, so there must have been successful attempts at this that are still functioning. Even if as you imply such a net should have some authority or authentication. I'm fine with such an authority as long as it's not a company but a community with the peer's interests at heart. If I have to verify my identity or chat with a few people first I also find that fine :D
I ask because your vision although probably correct when it comes to blockchain, seems overly bleak when it comes to communities sharing and a P2P driven internet. Because so far, by reading your post, the de facto solution, seeing as there is none feasible according to you, is to keep using Amazon & co, which many of us just refuse to do.
Nov 16, 2020, 6:29:32 PM
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