The problem with decentralized as far as what I have used so far, is that you require a whole host of unknown people to donate X amount of storage space to th

The problem with decentralized as far as what I have used so far, is that you require a whole host of unknown people to donate X amount of storage space to the network. With IPFS systems I have tried so far you have to struggle to find anyone who has any motivation in storing your stuff for you. Let alone 4 people. Back in the "good old days" a truly distributed P2P system existed to "exchange" mp3 (all legal of course), and other files. People had incentives to share what they and what they got. This is still true for some BitTorrent content but it is not very stable most of the time. (People do not seed for long), though there are incentives to seed a lot. If you dont rely on strangers to store your files and you are paying Digital Ocean S3 or some such it is not really. But sure you can pay multiple providers to store thenm for you.