is there any established project that makes it easy to do, like, mutually untrusting reliable storage? because having 2-3 physical availability sites is the common advice but like, i don’t fuckin have a second home or datacenter, nor enough hard drives to put in such a place, and I’d prefer not to rent storage for my “personal infrastructure”

i could reasonably exchange a setup with a friend. easily do something like garage s3-compatible object store where we all provide redundancy for each other.

but like, i don’t trust others with all my files? i guess “encrypt the files”. but like, ideally i’d want to have “my view” where my stuff isn’t encrypted; so it can be “directly” used as s3 storage with whatever. but the physical backing volume is also shared with someone else’s logical view, and we can’t see each others’ files.

i trust my “friends” enough to expect one of them to be reliably storing my data after a catastrophe in my home hardware. but i don’t trust them enough that i would want to make it possible for them to read my data; especially if i use this for personal backups or other sensitive files.

I’d prefer not to rent storage

also goes into the untrusting part. i don’t trust a VPS provider with sensitive files either. so i suppose the threat model is the same as with a friend. but VPS is expensive: they want my money. friend also doesn’t do for free, but i pay them in my storage and my reliability.

@sodiboo send me all of your files i promise i won’t eat them

@kemona_halftau i want to send you all my files, unlimited files, but no files

@sodiboo Tahoe-LAFS?

@sodiboo I have not used it myself but it seems to do what you want (providing a distributed, encrypted file store where the nodes actually storing the data are not necessarily trusted, but the gateway server (or whatever it's called, I only looked briefly) which you would host yourself does the encryption and so you can access your files unencrypted via it)

@noisytoot ooh. yes. Tahoe Least-Authority File Store. i’ve never heard of this before and it sounds EXACTLY like the thing i was looking for. thank you. i will look into this.