I am recording a problematic idea here aimed at improving user data ownership and data sovereignty while optimizing the storage efficiency of dApps. The reason I call it a problematic idea is that I’ve identified many issues it could introduce, but I haven’t yet found suitable solutions. I want to d…

@peterparker I think Juno’s storage solution is very close to this, as it inherently provides storage services for other dApps through stable interfaces. However, I believe Juno’s current approach is more focused on serving as a database for dApps, rather than being bound to individual users and al…

Additionally, I recently watched a video released by dfinity. The dmail team initially created an independent canister for each user, but eventually switched to sharding the canisters to allow multiple users to share one due to cost constraints. Here’s the link https://youtu.be/ga7uMpDiBk0?si=SZWJ_…

How to create a personal-canister application? "Wapps" aka fully owned canisters Canister Dapps: A brief introduction GitHub - EgoDevs/ego GitHub - vporton/icp-package-manager: Package manager for ICP blockchain Neutron: Modular Rolling-Governed Applications System Personal Canis…

Also the twist of fate of building something like this on the Internet Computer is that it will free users from the currently centralized networks only to put them back under the NNS. But that’s a probably a discussion for another day.

I’m not entirely focused on the ownership issue itself; I usually approach such considerations under the premise that users fundamentally don’t care. What I’m thinking is that this solution could also address certain problems of resource waste and potentially simplify the model by reducing intermedi…

[image] Seb: I believe the “Personal Canister movement” needs something that is simply impossible to build any other way. My approach is what is currently demonstrated on mycanister.app: Deposit ICP Perform II auth You have your own canister Your “Canister Dapp” (as I like to call them) is…

Once its easy to develop Canister Dapps, we need to solve one more problem: Decentralized user discovery. Your Canister Dapp needs to discover users of the service, join a group, publish stuff etc. Several approaches are possible. I aim to demo this later this year Wasnt there an ICRC standard in…

We need to think of the industries and fields where people do care about owning their own stuff. Design/film industry for example we regularly back up work to various drives as well as cloud storage. Games, people hate that many games companies no longer let you fully own a game and make their own…

Documenting a Problematic Idea on Data Ownership

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fochive00 August 22, 2025, 10:19am 2

I’d like to link a topic here A standard for user owned data canisters?

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Documenting a Problematic Idea on Data Ownership

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