uploads via Dat by hcs at 8:05 PM EDT on April 24, 2019
Been thinking about distributed web stuff again, particularly Dat, for hosting uploads. Sort of like what I've tried to do with occasional IPFS links, but more self-service, using something like a hashbase installation. Dat doesn't have quite the same content-addressable property as IPFS, but it has the same (or better) anyone-can-mirror quality. There are a few hurdles: - I'd probably be providing a HTTP gateway, so mirroring would be mostly theoretical - I probably want an approval queue, so links wouldn't be immediately useful without being edited (or without some dynamic redirection or db editing), though I guess I could have a separate Dat for each upload and just stop hosting the ones I reject (and then have a Dat that is just an index of active links, for mirroring?)
I've looked at the Dat project, it seems neat, and useful for hosting static or entirely client-side-scripted content. I do kind of want to run a node myself, but I always dither between figuring out how to host something that can act as a daemon instead of just leaving the Beaker browser open 24/7.