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Re:Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker by pwang on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:18AM (#15465875)
From what I can tell (and I am not an expert): Zeronet and IPFS are really fixated with solving the P2P secure content distribution problem. They convolve the solution of that transport-level problem with what I believe to be the central problem, which is a distributed content integrity system. DAT is a technology is that primarily fixated on that latter component, and is relatively independent of transport.

I think that things like p2p transport via Tor, bt, etc. are all red herrings. The robust computing infrastructure for the next-gen, distributed information system that the world needs, should not be tied to transport layer concerns like that. It should work reasonably well via flash-drive-sneakernet as it does over fiber and LTE.

Re:Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker by staticvar on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:18PM (#15468065)
Dat works great in the sneakernet flashdrive scenario as you can P2P sync over offline WiFi and dat clients like beaker browser will automatically verify cryto signatures. It makes distributing a verified offline and online P2P web very accessible for non technical folks. It's like SSL for the offline web.
Re:Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker by pwang on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:34PM (#15469381)
Yep, that's why I like it. :-)