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@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@bhaugen @jalcine

i wish more people would consider exploring building on `dat`. It's always self hosted - it's inherently how it works - and you don't even need a server. you run the app on your device and thats self hosting and it connects to others peer to peer and you just connect with others peer to peer to form your grass roots social network.

So many p2p apps we need - too few helping to build them *sigh*
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@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@bhaugen @jalcine

We are working on a way to bring dat to regular browsers as well - but it's hard, because browsers are very hostile towards peer to peer and are inherently client-server.

Maybe this will be ready before the end of the year, but until then "pear runtime" is your best bet.

Good thing:

it allows you to build a p2p web using the web stack and release it for iOS, android, linux, windows and MacOS 🙂

It is plenty to take in, because dat is highly modular and it always has been

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@yala@degrowth.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@serapath
Desktop + CLI I suppose?
We'd want to come back with #FedWiki sites. Maybe even the earlier dat Experiment that worked very well in Beaker Browser could be revived to extend the federation with #p2p sites again. Poor Hashbase that went down with the HTTP bridges to those sites, which never found a replacement.
To self: I should have run hyper:// seeds for those hashes I kept in Beaker. Maybe I can recover them somehow from leftovers in some ~/.local snapshot.
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