[riverlong]

Sure, all data is on other people's servers, but the point is that you have tamper-proof, globally distributed, redundant copies of that data. Storing a piece of data on Ethereum is way different from hosting it on a single cloud machine.

[mentat]

Yes, and a few orders of magnitude more expensive.

[bronzejaguar]

Storing data on Ethereum is absurdly expensive, but further, it simply provides a different value proposition than running your own personal server. These ideas aren’t mutually exclusive, nor can they reasonably serve the same needs.

[fake-name]

You can do all those things without a blockchain.