I Am Buiding BorgIOS to de-shitify the Internet
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It's a local node.js app you run, which connects to their own mesh network, and somehow fetches the user data from the P2P mesh.
The P2P mesh is supposed to be uniform, "No masters, no workers, no special hardware" - but later in the README, they mention (1) users paying for storage and bandwidth (2) other users hosting the servers at their home using two different hardware classes. So it seems there is a pretty clear client/server distinction - even if the code is identical, the functions are not.
It is not clear how the data is stored - if I add a gigabyte of photos and then close the lid of my laptop, who is storing those? Do I choose specific nodes I trust, or is it assigned randomly? How much so I need to pay them for this? What if they turn off the server, do I lose all the data?
There is your usual "your identity is your keypair" deal, this time they recommend a USB stick for this, created from 24-word keyphrase. The good news is it makes the backup easy. The bad news is anytime you leave it unattended, someone else could copy your keys.
Just like with all other distributed systems of this sort, if you either lose your key (and have no backups), or someone else steals it, you lose control of your account forever and there is no way to recover.
There is its own cryptocurrency (of course!), which you can use to buy "Compute time, Storage, Streaming, Content from creators".
There is AI support of course, you can get paid for providing hardware which can run AI, and you can pay to run your queries on someone else's machines.
> if I add a gigabyte of photos and then close the lid of my laptop, who is storing those? Do I choose specific nodes I trust, or is it assigned randomly? How much do I need to pay them for this? What if they turn off the server, do I lose all the data?
No nodes are trusted they just store shards. To recreate a file you need to have the shard map (the list of the sha256 hashes for each shard). If you want the shards encrypted your client encrypts before the file enters the network and only you can decrypt it with the cypher you stored it with.
And its even worse, its Musk's dogecoin ilk.
What a way to kill a project before even starting it.
Centralization comes from people building bigger and bigger companies which control bigger percentages of hardware connected to the Internet. Consolidation is the natural order of things: competition is hard, so buy your competitor. If you want to solve / prevent it, then there needs to be incentives for companies to stay small, for there to be multiple companies, and for people to (begrudgingly) want more competition. None of this has anything to do with technology.
the internet is already decentralized. "Anyone can hook up a computer to the Internet and others can immediately access it". This means: cloud - don't need it, platforms - don't care, app store - why would a webpage need it.
This leaves domain names, cert authorities and search. Decentralized alternative s for all of those exist already, and frankly they are much better than your project.