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Would you use a Decentralised file system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Valmond@lemmy.world to c/decentralization@lemmy.world

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How could a robust decentralised file system be useful?

Would you use one if one was available?

If so, to what use (storing, sharing, building apps on top of it, ...)?

If not, are there some specific reasons like difficulty to set up, legal, you already use one, or other?

I'm making one and it is fully functional but adoption is not here yet so I'm trying to figure out why.

Cheers

Edit: I'm referring to a decentralised online storage, accessible from anywhere.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sure but like not for everything. I use online for moving files mostly and photos actually because if I lost all my photos it would be sad but not like catastrophic and they take a lot of space compared to docs.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would you use one online filesystem for that if the counterpart was to share some disk space (and bandwidth)?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

oh yeah I could totally see it. I think the big issue is I don't keep my machine on and likely other people don't to which would be a problem to the whole system.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I figured that too, so my system overshares, you have 10 others sharing your data (or more or less, but you'd chip in more or less shared storage too) so that statistically the information is accessible close to all the time.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah but see making sure I have 10x as much space as I need. likely not going to do it then.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes it's not for storing large backups, more hundreds of gigas maybe, or stuff like git repos or a website

Thanks for the input!