Comment on DAT-protocol
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
What is it?
From one of the projects
Agregore, a browser for the distributed web, facilitates peer-to-peer data sharing without central servers, supporting protocols like BitTorrent and IPFS for direct loading and sharing of content.
So instead of putting stuff (like my webpage) on a server, I share it P2P? But then my computer has to run 24/7 which basically makes it a server, right?
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
IIRC from when I tried this before, I think anyone who views the page then hosts it too. I’m not sure if there’s systems in place to stop the storage used ballooning, surely there are.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Sounds a bit like Scuttlebutt
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How do they manage changes to the site and refreshing the peers with the latest copy?
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Again this is based off memories from several years ago but I think files were shared as hashes so a new version would be a new file.