ts-odd VS arweave

Interesting!

Seems to have a fair bit of crossover with what the Fission team is doing. Yesterday I stumbled upon a web page re: a presentation[1] that a key Fission dev/founder (former Ethereum Core Dev) will be making in late September:

I ended up spending some time playing with Fission Drive[2] and looking at their Guide[3], and just generally reading their dev[4] and marketing materials[5].

Anyway, looking at the Web5 site, it seem to strike some of the same notes.

I'm not affiliated with or participating with Fission in any way, but am working as part of a team developing a decentralized storage protocol focused on durability.

[1] https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2022/a-distributed-file-syste...

[2] https://drive.fission.codes/

[3] https://guide.fission.codes/

[4] https://github.com/fission-suite

[5] https://fission.codes/

Currently, I work at fission.codes, and I have to say, it’s right up my alley. I wasn’t expecting to get the job. In fact, I didn’t really take the application seriously. But to my surprise, the CEO reached out to me to schedule a call, which I missed. I was really tired that day, so I slept off. I reached out to the CEO apologizing for missing the call, and trying to reschedule. Thankfully, he did. The interview went smoothly, and I got the job.

Note that the Filecoin network (which was designed to be the incentive layer for IPFS storage) has been operational for some time. If you look at the current status at https://file.app/ , you can see that storage costs there are extremely low for large amounts of data. f you can get your data verified as open, public data by applying for datacap with a Filecoin+ notary, it's currently free. See https://plus.fil.org/ (you can get 32GB of free datacap to play with just for having a github account).

If you want to use the Filecoin network as a "provider of last resort" for IPFS data, there's https://estuary.tech which will mark your data as verified, sort out the deals with storage providers, and then mirror it to IPFS.

There's also third-party tools like https://fission.codes/ , https://docs.textile.io/powergate/ , https://web3.storage/ and https://www.pinata.cloud/ for making this easier.

(Disclosure: I work at the Filecoin Foundation.)

There are several technical affordances to this at the moment. Local-first or edge apps enable the whole experience to take place in the security of one's own device and can continue offline without internet connection. Zero Data protocols like remoteStorage, Fission, and Solidobviate the need to create accounts (because people bring their own data storage) and also enable apps as swappable lenses—"software is the principles of an experience" (as Steve Jobs might have said) and your data becomes the details. Sharing content via URI fragment stores data in the link itself so that no 3rd-party server is necessary to hold the data (for example, a multi-platform music playlist).

You have to encrypt your own files. But there are solutions in the works! In the Filecoin Ecosystem check out https://fission.codes

Check out https://fission.codes they have a private drive

Or check out and the Webnative SDK that we've built all this into: https://github.com/fission-suite/webnative

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.

There are a few solutions:

https://www.arweave.org/

https://www.lighthouse.storage/

To me, they seem like the most useful stuff coming out of the blockchain industry.

Familiar DePIN initiatives include Helium, a Decentralized Wireless Network from 2019, Filecoin or Arweave for Cloud Storage.

Arweave is a permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger.

The metadata in question is called “tags” on the Arweave blockchain. Tags are a list of keys and values you can add to your transactions to give the reader of that transaction additional information about it. They aren’t pre-defined by the protocol; you can add custom tags. But there are several specifications that try to standardize common tags.

Arweave

IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees.

Arweave is better suited to archival storage. There are options for participants to ban particular types of content which may be illegal to host in their jurisdiction. This was designed to prevent the spread of CP, terrorism related info, etc. but that means it is also susceptible to DCMA issues too.

https://www.arweave.org/

Arweave is a community owned, decentralized and permanent data storage protocol. You can check it out here.

Another choice is Arweave.