To me, a "cloud" always felt like it should be describing something decentralized. So I recently made an alternative to the Big Tech clouds, and I'm giving it away as open source. Anyone can use it on their site, to have their site's members store data in their browser tabs, it's like IPFS pinning, but far more efficient and easy to use: just open a tab and that's it.
Drops - this is regular normies opening a tab
Jets - this is people running a node to route requests
Client - this is what's embedded in iframes etc.
Oh, and one more thing. It encrypts everything end-to-end, supports streaming video (!) and lets you share specific intervals or chunks if you want, so that the decryption happens only of those intervals. You can sell content that many people around the world store encrypted, and don't know what they're storing.
Here is an article about it in a security magazine: <a href="https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser-based-encrypted-storage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser...
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<a href="https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud" rel="nofollow">https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud
It has three types of participants:
Oh, and one more thing. It encrypts everything end-to-end, supports streaming video (!) and lets you share specific intervals or chunks if you want, so that the decryption happens only of those intervals. You can sell content that many people around the world store encrypted, and don't know what they're storing.Here is an article about it in a security magazine: <a href="https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser-based-encrypted-storage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser...