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Explain Like I'm Five

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ELI5 the cloud. How does it work ? Can I just download all the things I want to so it doesn't take up space on my SSD by uploading there or something? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

To tack on to this, with an example that is easier to grasp - I have my own cloud, comprised of machines at my house, my friends, and family.

Those machines provide backup storage for each other, over the internet (using an encrypted connection).

If I were to charge people for storage, I'd be little different than any other cloud storage provider (at the most basic level).