[noen]

No. I tried. For weeks. Filecoin is the mechanism for this. And they do everything humanly possible to both technically keep the ecosystem open, while at the same time making it practically impossible for any non-data center vendor to take part.

The min hardware specs are absurdly large. Most of the services required are not prepackaged alum any way, the exercise is left to the implementer for almost everything.

If you don’t have 100k+ to drop in hardware, there’s no community help for you.

It’s a shame because ipfs is well structured from the other end, but it’s not really decentralized in any way other than naming.

[Gigachad]

Yeah I looked in to filecoin as well and it's not nearly as simple as setting up a raspberry pi with a 1tb HDD attached. You have to have a latest gen array of GPUs sitting there constantly cryptographically proving the entire content of the HDD every minute.

As with all crypto tech, its insanely inefficient and you may as well use google drive or s3.