Can we sort out the marketing confusion of the project.
Currently we have MaidSafe, Safe Network, Autonomi (maid and emaid coin) and I struggle to educate people on what this project is, especially after the latest rebrand.
I’ve followed this project for more than 10 years and greatly believe in it. When I try and explain what it is and where I should link them to.
My assumption is:
But it doesn’t really explain (imo) why it exists unless you already have the context of what MaidSafe was.
Maybe this is just me and the people in my circle being confused, and if that’s the case I’ll be quiet.
But could we start by updating the MaidSafe websites to redirect to autonomi?
I’m new to the project (loosely followed IPFS/DAT, but never MaidSafe) and could really use a cut and dry example of what the project is and how it fits relative to the other players fwiw
Like, fundamental stuff like: is it for archiving data, running applications with a trustless backend, backing up personal files, etc.
What performance expectations should we have? Is it slower than AWS? AWS over Tor? Someone’s 2006 spinning rust on 10 MBit up WiFi over Tor? If its slow that’s fine but it would impact what applications it would be good for
I read the whitepaper and the documentation but it didn’t answer much, seems like this project has a lot of history and there are answers but I wish it was easier to find for a newcomer like me
Id say stick around a few more days and when we get the next network up and running on the 18th you can test uploads and downloads for your self.
Downloads are usually pretty fast. I’ll put up some test files you can test with and if you require some attos to upload with yourself let me know and I’ll send you some over
Those are great questions and I don’t know if it helps to say this because it seems less niche but, yes to all of those examples.
Just imagine it as the internet if you signed into it, instead of apps, and the internet was a permanent personal cloud for everyone on earth but still browsable with permanent public data and with applications that utilize its security, login, storage, existing data, etc.
The opportunity for developers being a very cheap, reliable, secure and scalable platform to build on, for node operators a way to make the internet they use more decentralized, more secure, private, and get paid for providing spare resources of either dedicated or everyday devices.
In terms of speed, since so much happens in parralel (think torrents) it has good speed out of the box. In the future there will be opportunistic caching and maybe deterministic caching, the opportunistic will keep popular data cached so that instead of popular sites or apps becoming overloaded and crashing, they would actually be served faster.
This project for the longest time has had one of the clearest visions of what the true potential that decentralized tech could offer. Ahead of its time even. Most people do t realize but it was the biggest deal in the beginning after Bitcoin, especially to the decentralization purists / cypher punk types, it was a bit overshadowed by VC interest in Ethereum in the end.
Not even getting into the native token scalability and speed which will eventually blow minds but that has taken a little bit of a back seat to get the network up, running, and stable.
I’d just add when you sign on, you give away no credentials, you are just reading and decoding your account info on the machine you are using.
Also in addition, you own your data, you decide who gets to see it. So signing on is not like current websites where you give them it all and trust them to not abuse that info and to keep it safe from being hacked. Autonomi you retain all your data and no site to get hacked to steal your data
This is what allows the data, login, etc to all be kept private. As soon as you use a 3rd party server side apps then you have to also let them have access to your data, login credentials and so on like the current internet.