Hello r/Ethereum!!

I wanted to mention a project called Wildland. From the leaders of Qubes OS and The Golem Project, we're developing a set of open-source protocols and software with the aim of giving users back control over their digital data. What this means is that we are developing a new layer where your data is handled. We are not a storage solution, but a management system that you can use with the flexibility to change storage providers easily.

Wildland abstracts cloud storage, letting you have encrypted storage containers that are portable between cloud providers. It also supports replication between different cloud providers for redundancy and local cache storage for speeding up operations with slower backends.

We are also developing a User Defined Organization, a new approach DAO for our decentralized governance model which utilizes our ERC-20 token, GLM.

We are having a live AMA on Twitter Spaces Wednesday, April 20th 6PM CET

and would love to have you join to ask any questions you have about the project. Why are we creating this project?

Today’s Internet is heavily consolidated around several Big Tech service providers, each of them operating their own closely controlled “walled garden” (i.e. data silo). Centralized, closed services can be very convenient and reliable but they come with heavy strings attached. On top of limited users’ agency there are also well-known problems associated with limited users’ privacy:

• data mining,
• sharing of data with third parties,
• behavioral profiling and monetization,
• moderation of data feeds.

What we hope to achieve

Freeing users from dependency on service providers by going from a service-oriented Internet where corporations hold the reins, to a data-centered Web where the user is the sovereign. With Wildland we want to:

• give users and developers explicit control over their data and how its handled, so that they can control where it is stored, how it is processed, and what tools they are using to interact with it
• make it easy for users to switch storage providers, move or replicate data between different storage options, and acquire additional storage space from an open and competitive marketplace
• let users organize their data in a manner that supports their personal knowledge-management needs and practices
• allow unmediated publishing and sharing of data without third party supervision or interference
• create a fertile ecosystem for privacy-conscious app-developers who are willing to put users first

Empowering users through the User-Defined Organization

We are developing Wildland around a user-first philosophy, therefore we want users to have the deciding voice on how the platform should operate and evolve.To fulfill this promise we’re developing a new model of governance for Wildland, with the aim of ensuring that the protocol’s heaviest users will have the strongest influence on its future development. We call this governance model the User-Defined Organization.

Any and all feedback are welcome! And stop by our sub r/wildland if you'd like to discuss anything around the project.