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I don't want my stuff in the "cloud", I want it shared from my lawn. My own personal space to where people can access my stuff, that I share, and we can convers

I don't want my stuff in the "cloud", I want it shared from my lawn. My own personal space to where people can access my stuff, that I share, and we can converse over whatever that is ... my own GDPR rules.

TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
Have you seen Beaker [0]? It doesn't require you to setup a complex web server and configure a bunch of stuff, you just run the browser and it'll start sharing your website. It's a move back to a truly decentralized web. [0] https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/
- newscracker 9y ago
  I actually tried this a while ago, and found that the audience also had to use Beaker to access the content. That's a huge barrier if current browsers don't support this.
  - omnimus 9y ago
    True but i think that their plan is to get into web standards and have IPFS and DAT in other browsers. Beaker is just first implementation. I believe Firefox people are already doing some work on those protocols. It will be interesting see Googles position on those protocols. Chrome might be huge weapon against those iniciatives. Google can simply kill the whole initiative if they won't support it.
  - staticvar 9y ago
    Beaker uses Dat protocol as opposed to HTTP under the hood. Dat protocol support is coming to Brave browser, probably Firefox next. The P2P web is about to take off.
    - indigodaddy 9y ago
      I like the idea of dat/ipfs/p2p web, however , I'm hesitant to use my personal computer as the "peer" for this sort of thing. Can you just host/peer your ipfs/dat webpages/services/stuff from a Linux VPS/server?
  - TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
    One must start somewhere. You can use DatHTTPD [0] to mirror your site on HTTPS. There's also additional tools available on the project website [1]. They're also writing specs and working on adding support to Brave [2], or so says the third footnote on that article. Brave also has ongoing work to support IPFS [3]. Long-term, I'm hoping browsers will improve support for registering new protocols through extensions. [0] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd [1] https://datproject.org https://datproject.org [2] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-the-webs-black-boxes https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-th... [3] https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556 https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556
- Pamar 9y ago
  Didn’t Opera offer something similar in the past? A small “private space” you could optionally share with others (as long as they used Opera too). I ask because Beaker claims to be “the first and only...”
  - skocznymroczny 9y ago
    Opera had Opera Unite, but it was basically a webserver with extensions in the browser, it didn't require the other person to use Opera.
    - Pamar 9y ago
      I see, thanks: I wasn't sure about the details.

TheAceOfHearts 9y ago

Have you seen Beaker [0]? It doesn't require you to setup a complex web server and configure a bunch of stuff, you just run the browser and it'll start sharing your website. It's a move back to a truly decentralized web. [0] https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/

newscracker 9y ago
I actually tried this a while ago, and found that the audience also had to use Beaker to access the content. That's a huge barrier if current browsers don't support this.
- omnimus 9y ago
  True but i think that their plan is to get into web standards and have IPFS and DAT in other browsers. Beaker is just first implementation. I believe Firefox people are already doing some work on those protocols. It will be interesting see Googles position on those protocols. Chrome might be huge weapon against those iniciatives. Google can simply kill the whole initiative if they won't support it.
- staticvar 9y ago
  Beaker uses Dat protocol as opposed to HTTP under the hood. Dat protocol support is coming to Brave browser, probably Firefox next. The P2P web is about to take off.
  - indigodaddy 9y ago
    I like the idea of dat/ipfs/p2p web, however , I'm hesitant to use my personal computer as the "peer" for this sort of thing. Can you just host/peer your ipfs/dat webpages/services/stuff from a Linux VPS/server?
- TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
  One must start somewhere. You can use DatHTTPD [0] to mirror your site on HTTPS. There's also additional tools available on the project website [1]. They're also writing specs and working on adding support to Brave [2], or so says the third footnote on that article. Brave also has ongoing work to support IPFS [3]. Long-term, I'm hoping browsers will improve support for registering new protocols through extensions. [0] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd [1] https://datproject.org https://datproject.org [2] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-the-webs-black-boxes https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-th... [3] https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556 https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556
Pamar 9y ago
Didn’t Opera offer something similar in the past? A small “private space” you could optionally share with others (as long as they used Opera too). I ask because Beaker claims to be “the first and only...”
- skocznymroczny 9y ago
  Opera had Opera Unite, but it was basically a webserver with extensions in the browser, it didn't require the other person to use Opera.
  - Pamar 9y ago
    I see, thanks: I wasn't sure about the details.