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A comment on RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on the Web.

Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by Roritharr on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:09PM (#17298535)
In theory this seems like a great solution to many data privacy problems, but I suspect strongly that this leads in reality to very hard to support products as you can't make that many assumptions about the data stores. Performance and reliability of datastorage makes up a large chunk of the user-experience of any web-app, so having this out of ones control is a tough proposition for anyone actually wanting to build a business ontop of this.
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by chatmasta on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:17PM (#17298946)
In reality everyone’s data will be stored at the same four cloud providers.
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by fiatjaf on Thursday June 14, 2018 @06:15AM (#17310583)
Do you think this is worse than having it all in one cloud provider?

The number of providers doesn't matter, actually. It could be just one, as long as it is easy to switch whenever you need. See GitHub.

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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by hanniabu on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:03AM (#17300625)
Sadly this will be true for 95% of the storage
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by microcolonel on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:10AM (#17300658)
It seems to me that an API intended to make this storage a commodity would lower the barrier to entry, possibly increasing the natural number of participants in the market.
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by y4mi on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @06:34AM (#17301871)
Don't worry, these competitors will host their service on one of these providers
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by Freak_NL on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:18AM (#17302334)
Is that a big problem if data is end-to-end encrypted?
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by microcolonel on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:47AM (#17303566)
Cynicism like this makes its own truth each time it's repeated.
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by binbasti on Thursday June 14, 2018 @05:12AM (#17310405)
Actually, this has been pretty much a non-issue for us in production over the last 5 years. As the reference JS client library works offline first, it'll just sync data whenever the remote becomes available again. In fact, that's a nice bonus for offline-first web apps in general, not just with remoteStorage.
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Re:RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on ... by Fellshard on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:19AM (#17300984)
You'd need shared protocols for data, of some sort. Probably similar to the original dream for XML schemata.
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