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 ?
Not being developed anymore, never gained enough traction and afaik its lead developer is working now at bluesky.
What is it?
From one of the projectsAgregore, 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?
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.
Sounds a bit like Scuttlebutt
How do they manage changes to the site and refreshing the peers with the latest copy?
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.
New to me.