Jerry,
https://holo.host/ team are the folks who want the public to regain control of the Internet and are opposed to corporate power and giant hosting services. (They did an extremely successful crowdfunding campaign recently… $22M raised in maybe a month!)
A day ago, I contacted them but they said that they don’t offer the traditional cloud storage. However, they do offer distributed computing power for distributed apps. and if someone can develop an app for their hosts, that might provide a great alternative cloud storage option for the public.
The app developers can also make money (i.e. don’t have to rely on donations or their own support). Holo Fuel is what they call the cryptocurrency they will give. Their servers should be up and running this year.
Wonder if some of you guys, the developers and contributors of Syncthing could do something.
I am a supporter of publicly owned services so I could pitch in whatever little I’m capable of.
Thanks