slate VS skyfeed

One product I helped develop on top of Filecoin is https://slate.host, people would use it to upload photos, and then do archival on Filecoin automatically. It was really good for photos that you wanted to be on the public that you wanted to ensure backups.

Slate is even better than Dropbox.

You can try https://slate.host or https://files.chainsafe.io, What did you look at that was complicated?

Check out https://web3.storage and https://estuary.tech if you're a developer, or https://slate.host if you just want to search a very small snapshot of all the data, or https://file.app, an index I'm working on to get a better sense of price, storage capacity, and participants in the ecosystem.

Slate.host also generates an IPFS CID for uploaded files. What's the benefit of using Pinata, a "pinning" service, over Slate, a "hosting" service?

Slate: This is the world's first open-sourced decentralized storage system, which distributes your files across the Inter-Plantetary Filesystem (IPFS) rather than in a centralized network of storage clusters. The parent company, Protocol Labs, has a lot of exciting features planned w.r.t. secure storage, actually.

slate.host: The design is right. Problem 1: I made an account month ago, and now I can't login anymore because my password seems to be wrong, and there is no password-reset-option.. Problem 2: The version-state does not seem to be public-usable-ready. I think I even read about a warning of the Dev-Team to not save importend stuff on it.

If you haven't slate.host. Just dug that out of the docs and its kinda neet.

Currently the most promising product built on top of Filecoin is Slate https://slate.host/. I have tried that product but it’s not realistic that I would use it as my daily data storage.

To use it you can go to slate.host, space.storage, or files.chainsafe.io. Slate.host even gives you 4GB for free, and will start giving 50GB for free soon.

I would be very surprised if such app doesn't come out of the recently announced developer program. Someone could partner with redsolver (https://github.com/redsolver/skyfeed) to give use to all the know-how he gained in the process and come up with decentralized twitter that will be actively developed.

Skyfeed - Alternative to Twitter by RedSolver

https://skyfeed.hns.siasky.net/ is a decentralized social network by Skynet, the same people that created Siacoin that also offer decentralized cloud storage!

Still pretty simple but yes there is one called Skyfeed

The easiest way to support the network is to begin using Skynet. You could use something like Filebase, Skyspace's, or MARStorage to begin transferring the data you currently store on something like Google Drive or Dropbox and store it on the Sia network. Additionally you could take a look at the current applications and begin using things like Skyfeed which all require Siacoin to be used as they all run off the Sia network via Skynet. You could also begin looking in to becoming a host for the Sia network if that is your kind of thing which would allow you to earn Siacoin for renting out your unused hard drive space. But ultimately the best way to help grow the network is to begin using it any way you can and to encourage everyone you know to do so as well. It would be worth while explaining to people you know why Skynet is important to them and how it will benefit all our lives. Once people know what the project is about there will be nothing stopping it from going mainstream.

If you go to Siasky and upload a file, or Skyfeed and make a post you have just used Siacoin to do so. Additionally you could download the Sia-UI and rent personal storage using Siacoin yourself. However, since Skynet's inception it is no longer necessary for a person to purchase Siacoin to rent storage. You could use something like Filebase, MARStorage, or Skyspace to store your files on the Sia network without needing to worry about purchasing Siacoin. So since the end user no longer needs Siacoin to use the Sia network, it doesn't make sense for them to buy it unless they are wanting to invest in the coin. The people who are buying Siacoin with the intention of using it are mostly hosts and portal operators.

Everything I possibly can! But what this post is about is the Sia host I am running which provides storage space to the network. I also use the Sia network via Skynet to store my files, send files and even some social media (Skyfeed. Eventually I'll be using Sia and Skynet for everything I do once the appropriate skapps are made.