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DAT-protocol (dat-ecosystem.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by biotin7@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I stumbled onto this interesting protocol. Already has a browser using it called the beaker browser

Basically a decentralized protocol for data with Git-like features built-in. I wonder if any of you have stumbled onto this. Any thoughts ?

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do they manage changes to the site and refreshing the peers with the latest copy?

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds a bit like Scuttlebutt