siad VS ipfs

For example, decentralized data storage projects like Filecoin, Arweave, and Sia posted 50-100% user growth, providing blockchain-powered alternatives to AWS, Google Cloud, and Dropbox for distributed app data security.

Sia - A decentralized data storage platform where the proof of work helps maintain the network and provide storage services.

Sia

If I'm following correctly, I believe this is basically what Sia does, although not optimized to be used directly as a media server (or maybe it could?).

https://sia.tech/

For consumer storage, Sia, Storj, and Vult (on Züs) can be good options since they are architecturally lower cost because of the erasure code technology. But for enterprise storage, among the available platforms, there isn’t a direct competitor to AWS S3 except for Zus, and archive storage, Filecoin is the best alternative, and for consumer storage, Storj, Sia, and Züs offer better options for fast retrieval times.

As long as your needs are not beyond a TB, you can always consider something that does not require an actual "login" or a national currency, such as using SIAcoin (https://sia.tech). The cost for a terabyte hosted in two places often will cost you under the equivalent of $6-8 per month. It takes getting used to, but since it is blockchain based, it might even be possible for you to mine the means of paying for your cloud storage if what you actually need hosted is low enough.

is this the right repo ? https://github.com/SiaFoundation/siad/commits/master

Cloud storage https://sia.tech https://filecoin.io https://www.storj.io

It deviates from IPFS in many ways. So, it is a fork. You can check https://sia.tech

> CDNs

If you think IPFS is trying to "re-spin CDNs as their invention", I'm pretty sure you misunderstand what IPFS. The homepage is a great starting point if you're curious rather than antagonistic: https://ipfs.tech/

> IPFS doesn't solve persistence of data

I don't think it claims to solve this either? What it does claim to solve is the persistence of identifiers of data.

> doesn't solve churn in p2p systems

What P2P system has ever done so or even claimed to have done so?

We will create a web app that will let users mint a NFT in one click: creating an AI art from a prompt, storing it on IPFS and mint the unique NFT in Polygon so you can see it on OpenSea. Pretty cool right ?

I post a lot about IPFS, I was using the 'ipfs mount' to virtually offer my entire collection from my NAS (on a private 'swarm' of course) to the remote stations.

I've been on the IPFS bandwagon for a while.

This looks pretty promising; I am assuming this is what you are talking about? https://ipfs.tech/

When first moving it to something new, ever considered https://ipfs.tech/ ? I wonder what the pain points would be making an imgur like system on top of that.

If you want it generally available, IPFS is a nice option. Then any other hoarders that pin/cache the data act as +1 source, similar but different to torrents. There are public gateways but they can get hammered with heavy traffic and aren't always the best.

> Is this meant to be understood by geniuses or something?

Nope; anyone who has some basic programming knowledge and perhaps a high level understanding about how different programming languages work. And the ability to connect some dots together.

> “it’s JSON with types and functions and hashed references”

Another way to say this: it's executable YAML, which is a strict superset of JSON [1]. I like YAML, so that's what came to mind when looking at ScrapScript code. I also like clean, minimal syntax when I can get it, like YAML, CoffeeScript or Haml.

> “it’s a language with a weird IPFS thing”

I’ve been playing with IPFS [2] since its early days in 2015, though not much recently, though this will probably get me back into it. Content addressing solves a lot of problems that I won’t get into here but it’s certainly not that hard to grasp. IPFS is available for pretty much every browser these days and is integrated into the Brave browser [3].

> all programs are data

This concept has been around since the creation of Lisp in the 1950's. This enables all kinds of cool features the computer science types get excited about. I've known about this concept since the 80's when I used to teach kids Logo (which is a Lisp). The term used nowadays is homoiconicity [4] but that term wasn't in widespread use until fairly recently.

Bottom line: ScrapScript sounds very interesting and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

[1]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#12-yaml-history

[2]: https://ipfs.tech

[3]: https://brave.com/brave-integrates-ipfs/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity

IPFS is like an open-source CDN (content delivery network).