@frogzone @p @jae

I've got 4 posts (excluding this thread) in total about DCN/Glutplug from hashtags and 3 of those were from you and one of the author's(?) accounts (dsfgs?) has nothing related and the instance hosting the account died a year ago. Kagi returns nothing useful. So that's the extent I know about this thing. No website, source repo, no mention on how it works, nada.

>Privacy? is uses i2p

From this thread, I assume, that the purpose of it is to store data that can be retrieved later and use it as way to serve files in a decentralized way. That part is fine. But... I2P is an anonymization layer on top of clearnet; using an anonymization network for storing and retrieving data with heavy traffic that does not need to exist is something I would call highly unethical. Same as torrenting over Tor. That kind of traffic usually isn't welcome. Yes, I know that some torrent clients support I2P, but I still think that using I2P for torrents that aren't highly sensitive (leaks) in nature just shouldn't be done.

I just want to cache some data on the edge, throw that data away after a set period of time and that's it. Ideally this wouldn't be built on top of I2P and it would just be another protocol where the website just references a hash of that data and you fetch that data from multiple nodes. There's no need to go through multiple hops to receive that data. From the side of the company using this, it achieves literally nothing other than putting their data on nodes from other people, which I guess saves cost. Also how do you reward people for hosting your shit. The advantage of speed isn't there, which usually is the main thing you build a CDN for. And for the customer, they are basically experiencing "Tor" speeds.

I think that this is a sound idea, but it is just executed poorly and doesn't make sense for the purpose you probably meant when you said that CDNs are a bad idea and DCNs are better. From this thread it literally seems to me that it is just an IPFS-like protocol running over I2P.

If you want to avoid censorship, make that content available anonymously and want your content to be hosted almost indefinitely, than it makes. It just doesn't make sense in the context you are arguing for.