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After reading the landing page, I still don't know what this is. Is it a backup service?

nwh 13y ago
I think it's sort of tack-on storage for media.
adamnemecek 13y ago
It's a tent.io (https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/) hosting service. Basically, if I understand it correctly, tents are personal servers where different applications run that can communicate with other tents. So for example if there were a social networking application running on your tent, if someone else viewed your profile, the data would come from your tent, not from some third party server that you don't have access to. And this service provides hosting of said tents. That's my understanding, someone correct me if I'm wrong. EDIT: Seems like I was not that far off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol)
- eli 13y ago
  So the idea is it's app.net but storage instead of messaging?
  - adamnemecek 13y ago
    I'm not all that familiar with app.net but as far as I know they still host your data no? Like if you upload a picture or something, it's still on their servers. I think that with tent, it's hosted on your server. It's much closer to email where you can host your own server or have someone host it.
  - jeena 13y ago
    I'd say it is app.net but not in the hands of one company but instead there is a protocol and everyone can implement their own server and apps and run it on their own. In the end it would be like with email that you would have 5-10 big hosters like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, some regional hosters like web.de, gmx and people who host their own servers like me. The thing is, the whole Tent thing is not really ready for other people then curious developers. The protocol spec is in the making, most of the apps are broken after the upgrade of the protocol from version 0.2 to 0.3 a couple of days ago and need to be fixed, etc. It will at least take a couple of month until it is usable. It is not a good thing that cupcake (one of the hosters) are getting new users because of this post because those users will be disappointed.
quaz3l 13y ago
It is built on the http://tent.io http://tent.io protocol which is like Despora (https://despora.de/ https://despora.de/) or StatusNet (http://status.net/ http://status.net/), where it is a decentralized social network. This use to be called http://tent.is http://tent.is, which was the first working 'example' twitter-like application of the protocol, but now I am assuming they wanted to create a business model, so they will offer storage on top of their twitter-like app, which will be accessed via tent protocol by other applications to store content (photos, videos, status messages, etc.)
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nwh 13y ago

I think it's sort of tack-on storage for media.

It's a tent.io (https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/) hosting service. Basically, if I understand it correctly, tents are personal servers where different applications run that can communicate with other tents. So for example if there were a social networking application running on your tent, if someone else viewed your profile, the data would come from your tent, not from some third party server that you don't have access to. And this service provides hosting of said tents. That's my understanding, someone correct me if I'm wrong. EDIT: Seems like I was not that far off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol)

eli 13y ago
So the idea is it's app.net but storage instead of messaging?
- adamnemecek 13y ago
  I'm not all that familiar with app.net but as far as I know they still host your data no? Like if you upload a picture or something, it's still on their servers. I think that with tent, it's hosted on your server. It's much closer to email where you can host your own server or have someone host it.
- jeena 13y ago
  I'd say it is app.net but not in the hands of one company but instead there is a protocol and everyone can implement their own server and apps and run it on their own. In the end it would be like with email that you would have 5-10 big hosters like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, some regional hosters like web.de, gmx and people who host their own servers like me. The thing is, the whole Tent thing is not really ready for other people then curious developers. The protocol spec is in the making, most of the apps are broken after the upgrade of the protocol from version 0.2 to 0.3 a couple of days ago and need to be fixed, etc. It will at least take a couple of month until it is usable. It is not a good thing that cupcake (one of the hosters) are getting new users because of this post because those users will be disappointed.

quaz3l 13y ago

It is built on the http://tent.io http://tent.io protocol which is like Despora (https://despora.de/ https://despora.de/) or StatusNet (http://status.net/ http://status.net/), where it is a decentralized social network. This use to be called http://tent.is http://tent.is, which was the first working 'example' twitter-like application of the protocol, but now I am assuming they wanted to create a business model, so they will offer storage on top of their twitter-like app, which will be accessed via tent protocol by other applications to store content (photos, videos, status messages, etc.)

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