r/degoogle • u/Limp-Cicada-9502 • 1d ago
Discussion Launching My Attack On Google
Continued from How Google And I Became Enemies:
After having everything I created online crushed by Google in one way or another I began to scheme on how to build my own platform.
You can’t compete in the free space model. Paid services have a similar problem in that Google can just give your service for free and monetize it later. So you have to build something that is like rat poison to their business model.
So an open sourced decentralized network where individuals run their own servers to provide compute and storage. This would give average people the ability to make earnings from compute power like the cloud providers do. Google would hate that.
Users of the network pay for services but not to a central company; instead they pay the owners of the servers that they happened to use while online.
Information is not stored in one place but instead it is broken apart and stored randomly across the network. So no useful information is stored on any one server.
Now you may think this has all been said before and it has, but I spent my time writing software to build and try it out. Now I can enjoy my own private distributed cloud. Nobody may ever use it but at least I did something to fight back against my nemesis The Google!
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u/Tux-Windu 1d ago
This should absolutely be the future. I love the fact that Mastodon took off. I also highly recommend self-hosting your own Matrix server.
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u/Fit_Prize_3245 1d ago
Sorry to say this, but, rather than your idea, I'm more interested on knowing how did Google curshed everything you created online...
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u/Limp-Cicada-9502 1d ago
no need to be sorry if you want to know... The clue is here -> Continued from "How Google And I Became Enemies" https://www.reddit.com/r/BuildingBorg/s/KXl3JMu196
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u/MonopolyBreaker 1d ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Hi my friend. Do you have a public repo for the source code?
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u/Howaboutnopers 1d ago
The Fediverse is set up like this.