2019/Austin/p2pweb
Peer-to-Peer Websites with Dat was a session at IndieWebcamp Austin 2019.
Notes archived from https://etherpad.indieweb.org/p2pweb
IndieWebCamp Austin 2019
Session: Peer-to-Peer Websites with Dat
When: 2019-02-23 13:00
Participants
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Jack Jamieson
Aaron Parecki- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Notes
- Dat browser is a fork of Chrome
- Create a new keypair which gives you an address
- Showing creating a new web page in a browser
- drop-in replacement for HTTP, no need to set up a server since it's p2p between browsers
- goal is to have people running their own websites and interacting with each others websites
- showing paul frazee personal website on dat
- view source -> duplicate website
- creating a social media feed by posting JSON files
Q: How is authentication handled? (e.g. to ensure only authorized people can edit a page) A: Address is a public key, private key needed to write to a page
~ missed a question here
Q: Any plans for mobile clients? A: Not soon
~couldn't hear this question clearly