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by aredirect 929 days ago
Hello, you are 100% in control of where to host your data and the beauty of the system is that you can completely replicate it yourself. I'd say the experience is more streamlined than building on-premise openstack cloud.

You can find the terms and conditions here https://library.threefold.me/info/legal/#/

and everyone is also welcome to run the current cloud or replicate their own :)

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There is a huge untapped market for a turn key DIY cloud, and this is something people would pay for. By cloud I mean with higher level stuff like serverless, Kubernetes, managed HA Postgres, etc., not just a VM manager like Proxmox.

If this is that, then great. Problem is that as soon as I see a reference to cryptocurrency I assume it’s either a scam or a platform for scams.

The term decentralized makes me think it’s a platform for local apps that talk to each other. That is also great but does not appear to be what this is.

So I think there’s a huge problem with how this is being presented.

Thank you for taking the time, very appreciated. We are actually aiming to build everything! crazy right? :) we have a working infrastructure that provides Virtual Machines and Kubernetes clusters, we are also targetting managed services as well (we are a quite small team, that's why we try to be a bit pragmatic deciding on solutions that we work on)

We are also planning to provide a cloud for systems like gitea, fossil, in a non-aggressive way to these respective projects.

Actually there's also another untold story, which is called a 3bot that's completely decentralized standalone working as your digital assistant, but we didn't get there yet :)

I fully agree that crypto world is making it harder for projects with good intentions specially those who delivered! (We are planning to be not linked with crypto at all soonish and allow more of fiat adoption)

Again, Thank you for taking the time!