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Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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isnt that kind of an oxymoron?
Torrents kind of are that.
personal backups over torrent? and who would download that?
They're saying that torrents are a form of decentralized cloud storage, not that torrents would be a viable means of decentralizing your own personal backups.
Pretty much this. Unless those personal back ups happen to also be media people want or osmething
of course they didn't say that, but the request for such tools was in the title
Isn’t that basically SyncThing? I thought it was BitTorrent under the hood.
Similar but no, Syncthing does not use bittorrent or the bittorrent protocol.
Though if you're curious Resilo Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) is similar to Syncthing and does use bittorrent.
Could you seed other peoples syncthings