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Skynet is a new protocol that has been working on something like this. You can see some of the webapps built on Skynet here: https://skynethub.io/_B19P18DEI4Y_3

• karissa 7y ago
  I don't see a github repository or any link to the open source code there. Is it open source?
  • soupbowl 7y ago
    I found this on their website: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal
• koeng 7y ago
  Is there anyway to pin skynet files using storage rather than Sia, or a way to download skynet files using the command line (independent of a curl request from a portal)?
  • Taek 7y ago
    For your first question: technically yes, but it's not really the way it's meant to be done. If you want to pin something with storage, you can become a host on the Sia network and then make that content available through your host. But this also means the content is subject to going offline if you go offline (unless someone has re-pinned it to other hosts), and Skynet is really meant to be this high reliability platform where you don't need to worry about particular users going offline. If you want to download skynet files using the command line, you can run 'siad' in portal mode as a daemon, and then use 'siac' to query the daemon. 'siac skynet download [skylink] [destination]' is the command to perform the download. Doing it this way means you gain direct decentralized access to Skynet instead of needing to funnel through a portal.
    • koeng 7y ago
      Is there a way to be a host and then pin other people's content that I like? I'd love to be a host that pins public content without an explicit financial transaction.
• faizshah 7y ago
  For me one of the main positives of dat is there isn’t an attached cryptocurrency.
  • Taek 7y ago
    Attaching a cryptocurrency to Sia allows us to draw a distinction between producers and consumers. In typical p2p networks, you are expected to be both in roughly equal proportions, which means your network gets polluted by a lot of low-quality users who are just trying to do their part. Sia has the consumers pay the producers, and has a marketplace mechanism that selects the highest performing producers to perform the jobs and receive the revenue. This allows the network as a whole to be much, much more efficient.
    • theamk 7y ago
      Wait, consumers pay the producers? As in, “you need to pay to download files”?
      • anaganisk 7y ago
        Doesn't not paying make us end up rebuilding the internet again with ads and tracking? Free is not always an option.
        • theamk 7y ago
          Doesn't paying encourage useless sites highly optimized to grab user attention, low quality content, shock sites, cloned sites, site bloat (if payment is per KB), and so on? That said, I think there's definitely a space for paid internet. I was just surprised because siasky homepage says "Build a Free Internet" - perhaps it should say "Build a pay per view internet" instead?
          • Taek 7y ago
            Free as in freedom, not free as in beer. I would argue that the current model is more friendly to attention grabbing content (clickbait, etc) because advertising has the limitation that all views are worth the same value. In a pay-as-you-go Internet, users can whitelist high quality content sources as being okay to charge 10x or 100x what you'd typical accept to view a webpage. This would incentive content creators to build a brand and reputation that makes users comfortable putting them on the 'high quality' list, so that their content can see a massive revenue multiple relative to the number of eyeballs.