@dataKnightmare well yeah the address you tooted is open to whoever has Beaker, right? or wasn't it meant to be so?

@charlyblack can you access the /gdprref folder?
I thought I needed this DAT thing to actually be visible from the outside

@charlyblack as I said, this "p2p" part is still fuzzy in my head. is the stuff replicated somewhere? who gets writing rights? what is this "seeding" thing?
Other than this, I love the idea of both self-hosting and of finding an alternative to Dropbox

@dataKnightmare I am too still very naively into this... :P
btw as far as I understand now a peer cannot write directly but can make a copy and edit that

@dataKnightmare yep I see that too, the dat address points to the whole /library

@charlyblack good then. feel free to roam, that's my collection of (mostly in Italian) GDPR stuff

@dataKnightmare my rotting brain will get lost if I try to read probably :P, but thanks!
btw I wonder if there's a way to share selectively with chosen peers..

@charlyblack I may also add my "data&society" and "AI" reading folders :)

@dataKnightmare oh yeah please :)

@dataKnightmare my links collection is always hungry
dat://fc42b5b51d9f1f20cf6c86e6a276ab6711b379ddd638b1c86817d3240057145c

@charlyblack doing it now. Only doubt: is this Node.js thing worthy? wouldnt like to bring in a can of worms into my own PC, would use a VM instead.

@charlyblack have you uinderstood what this "seed files" thing is?

@charlyblack now WOW. I say WOW. If replication works even barely this is a complete Dropbox/GDrive/Evernote replacement! And not proprietary!

@dataKnightmare mmh.. I am not sure I follow, I am trying the AppImage, didn't build from source

@charlyblack oh, me too. Node.js is needed to run DAT proper. Maybe it's the part needed for proper file replication. So far I am "seeding" your files, but I see no trace of them on my disk.

@charlyblack excellent link list. Some I already read, but not too many. Interesting.

@dataKnightmare what would be really cool is integration with a web-archiving tool, so that in case the links break there's a local copy of the web pages permanently recorded and stored

@charlyblack think we're looking for the same thing. If it's P2P, and on top of git, I should have a chance to fully replicate the website, only instead of everybody cloning down from github, you clone the directory I publish. I'm trying to see if this is the case.

@dataKnightmare this too yes, for the material that you host directly, but for the links list I was dreaming also of something to record the standard web pages the links point to, like the wayback machine...

@charlyblack yeah. On the other hand, I see Beaker *is* maintaining a copy of your website. It's internal, so to say, and I can choose to "save an editable copy" by downloading it as .zip.
IBut I want to see if it's only maintaining the catalog or the actual files. If it's only the catalog, it seems to me it would not really be p2p at all. checking...

@dataKnightmare yeah...I have yet tons of things to figure out basically ;)
but it looks cool, interesting to see how it will mature.. one minus point is that is based on Electron, so I don't know how strong it can be on the security side..