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What problem it is solving? I have gone thru the docs, but couldn't figure it out the purpose :(

Agnolo_Giotto 5y ago
As I commented above, from the practical introduction, it says, "Wildland is a collection of protocols, conventions, software, and (soon) a marketplace for leasing storage and in the future compute infrastructure. All these pieces work together with one goal in mind: to decouple the user's data from the underlying infrastructure." This would seem to make a user not dependent on any one platform to hold their data. So it improves data availability, platform lock-in risk and some censorship-resistance.
- slantyyz 5y ago
  When I see that description you quoted, it just reads like a giant string of jargon. This probably dates me, but back in the day (1990ish), there used to be an application on Mac (System 7 or 8 I think) called the MBA Phrase Generator that would generate sentences like that.
satanstornade 5y ago
From the website: "We believe in the universal rights of data accessibility and data portability. We believe that users should be allowed to do what they want to with their data, to decide with whom they want to share it, and who can process it. They also should not be restricted in their ability to access their data, move it between different storage options, and interact with it with the tools of their choice. Vendor lock-ins, outside content moderation, and denial of service do not fit in with our view of an open, decentralized, user-controlled Internet. This is why we are developing Wildland as a backend-agnostic, censorship-resistant, and open source protocol. Self-defined data containers that form the building blocks of Wildland can be stored anywhere you want. You can keep them on your hard drive, on your home NAS, or on one of the storage backends available through the Wildland marketplace. You can easily replicate your containers on several backends, each with distinct access policies defined, and move your data between different storage options without having to update their location in the file system. And with backend stacking employed you will be able to easily encrypt your data on the fly and turn any backend into end-to-end encrypted storage. In short, with Wildland, we are putting you in charge of your data." https://wildland.io/2021/05/13/access-denied.html https://wildland.io/2021/05/13/access-denied.html There's also a long paper describing the rationale behind the project https://golem.foundation/resources/documents/wildland-w2h.pdf https://golem.foundation/resources/documents/wildland-w2h.pd...

As I commented above, from the practical introduction, it says, "Wildland is a collection of protocols, conventions, software, and (soon) a marketplace for leasing storage and in the future compute infrastructure. All these pieces work together with one goal in mind: to decouple the user's data from the underlying infrastructure." This would seem to make a user not dependent on any one platform to hold their data. So it improves data availability, platform lock-in risk and some censorship-resistance.

slantyyz 5y ago
When I see that description you quoted, it just reads like a giant string of jargon. This probably dates me, but back in the day (1990ish), there used to be an application on Mac (System 7 or 8 I think) called the MBA Phrase Generator that would generate sentences like that.

satanstornade 5y ago

From the website: "We believe in the universal rights of data accessibility and data portability. We believe that users should be allowed to do what they want to with their data, to decide with whom they want to share it, and who can process it. They also should not be restricted in their ability to access their data, move it between different storage options, and interact with it with the tools of their choice. Vendor lock-ins, outside content moderation, and denial of service do not fit in with our view of an open, decentralized, user-controlled Internet. This is why we are developing Wildland as a backend-agnostic, censorship-resistant, and open source protocol. Self-defined data containers that form the building blocks of Wildland can be stored anywhere you want. You can keep them on your hard drive, on your home NAS, or on one of the storage backends available through the Wildland marketplace. You can easily replicate your containers on several backends, each with distinct access policies defined, and move your data between different storage options without having to update their location in the file system. And with backend stacking employed you will be able to easily encrypt your data on the fly and turn any backend into end-to-end encrypted storage. In short, with Wildland, we are putting you in charge of your data." https://wildland.io/2021/05/13/access-denied.html https://wildland.io/2021/05/13/access-denied.html There's also a long paper describing the rationale behind the project https://golem.foundation/resources/documents/wildland-w2h.pdf https://golem.foundation/resources/documents/wildland-w2h.pd...