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From the practical introduction, it says, "Wildland is a collection of protocols, conventions, software, and (soon) a marketplace for leasing storage and in the

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.

mdaniel 5y ago
Thank you for your reply So, I pay Wildland USD$100, they spend USD$80 on Google Cloud to provide some "s3" storage, possibly instances or cloud function execution or whatever, and then they give me back GLM$20(??) because ... they want GLM to flourish? If "a user [were] not dependent upon any one platform," then why would anyone pay Wildland to be in their alleged marketplace? Why wouldn't I buy GLM on coinbase (or wherever folks do that kind of thing, since AIUI PoU means I can't mine them) and then save myself the hassle of paying Wildland for only some percentage of GLM refunded to me? And all of this talk about our brave new semantic d-web 3.0 future, but until Google Photos or my insurance company lets me "grant" them access to my photos or medical documents or whatever, it's just college dorm talk, IMHO -- who is the target audience for this webpage?
- viraptor 5y ago
  Have a look at https://wildland.io/2021/06/11/introducing-client-v0.1.html https://wildland.io/2021/06/11/introducing-client-v0.1.html and examples which talk a bit more about the client usage. GLM seems to be a completely optional add-on feature, not something wildland is based on.
  - satanstornade 5y ago
    The client they released yesterday has no built in payment mechanism, and the site says explicitly that "If you have access to a suitable infrastructure you can use [Wildland] for free".

mdaniel 5y ago

Thank you for your reply So, I pay Wildland USD$100, they spend USD$80 on Google Cloud to provide some "s3" storage, possibly instances or cloud function execution or whatever, and then they give me back GLM$20(??) because ... they want GLM to flourish? If "a user [were] not dependent upon any one platform," then why would anyone pay Wildland to be in their alleged marketplace? Why wouldn't I buy GLM on coinbase (or wherever folks do that kind of thing, since AIUI PoU means I can't mine them) and then save myself the hassle of paying Wildland for only some percentage of GLM refunded to me? And all of this talk about our brave new semantic d-web 3.0 future, but until Google Photos or my insurance company lets me "grant" them access to my photos or medical documents or whatever, it's just college dorm talk, IMHO -- who is the target audience for this webpage?

viraptor 5y ago
Have a look at https://wildland.io/2021/06/11/introducing-client-v0.1.html https://wildland.io/2021/06/11/introducing-client-v0.1.html and examples which talk a bit more about the client usage. GLM seems to be a completely optional add-on feature, not something wildland is based on.
- satanstornade 5y ago
  The client they released yesterday has no built in payment mechanism, and the site says explicitly that "If you have access to a suitable infrastructure you can use [Wildland] for free".