Freenet VS Dropbox

Freenet Reviews

Dropbox Reviews

1. Lily1010    

   almost 4 years ago
   good cloud service

   It's much more convenient than GoogleDrive. I frequently use it to share my projects on freelance platforms. This is reliable cloud storage with many features

   🏁 Competitors: Google Drive

   👍 Pros:    Reliable|Convenient|Easy to use

   👎 Cons:    Found none

Freenet mentions (33)

• We're getting some positive attention on HN right now

  You are linking "original Freenet" to a PDF on freenet.org instead of linking to freenetproject.org ? Source: 12 months ago

• Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web

  It clashes with the Freenet project https://freenetproject.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are Alternatives to the Internet?

  There's a few abstractions of the web you can use today. https://freenetproject.org/ https://geti2p.net/en/ https://www.gnunet.org/en/ https://www.ipfs.tech/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• A player-owned RPG - would you want to participate in such a game?

  Instead of use of Blockchain you could also use Freenet . The only bad thing here data could be lost, but mostly only data is lost when not used. This could be used to auto purge forks that most people dislike. If for example some reason there are multiple alternatives how the story goes some of them will die after a while and removed from system. Source: about 1 year ago

• Internet Archive Takes Down BBC’s Documentary on PM Modi: Report

  An automatically space balancing solution would be Freenet. Given that it's content addressing, it's possible to push data into it and have it deduplicate automatically. Source: over 1 year ago

Dropbox mentions (28)

• Excel What if Analysis Issue

  Even better: upload an example Excel file to a file-sharing website (box.net/files, dropbox.com, onedrive.live.com, etc), and post a download link that does not require that we log in. Source: 6 months ago

• How to save data on Obsidian? Worried about data loss

  Note that Dropbox automatically backs up all your files. So if you delete a file, you can recover it on dropbox.com, even 6 months later. Source: 10 months ago

• How long would a USB stick last in storage?

  Upload what is on that stick to a cloud based system that is not vulnerable to degradation of hardware, you can get a lot of storage for free on sites like dropbox.com, mega.nz, or icloud. You can also always make multiple backups. Source: 10 months ago

• Dropbox data gone

  Did you try logging into dropbox.com and checking there? Often the files remain online even if they are removed locallY. You have to log in with the same account you deleted Locally. Source: 10 months ago

• Author Resources: Tools and Software

  Dropbox: You absolutely NEED backups. Ideally, both physical and cloud backups, because if you only have one backup, you're not backed up. I can't even begin to tell you how many writers have lost days, weeks, or even entire novels worth of work because they failed to back up their work, then had their computer break or had some weird software snafu. Dropbox is my preferred cloud backup solution, because you can... Source: 10 months ago