I’m thinking of using Storj because I’d like a trustless solution. Are there any other good alternatives in the decentralized or Web3 space?

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    18 days ago

    personal backups over torrent? and who would download that?

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      18 days ago

      They’re saying that torrents are a form of decentralized cloud storage, not that torrents would be a viable means of decentralizing your own personal backups.

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          18 days ago

          Similar but no, Syncthing does not use bittorrent or the bittorrent protocol.

          Though if you’re curious Resilo Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) is similar to Syncthing and does use bittorrent.

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        18 days ago

        of course they didn’t say that, but the request for such tools was in the title