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Re: Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites

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This is a project I've been working on to create decentralized, peer to peer, "serverless" websites using several technologies including webtorrent, dmt (mutable torrent BEP-46), and handshake decentralized domains.

You can create either an immutable (uneditable) torrent site, or you can create a ed25519 keypair and create a mutable (updatable) torrent site.

This is great for blogging, whistle blowing, and other things. It also scales well since torrent technology is great although it had previous been pigeonholed to other use cases.

Please give it a try and let me know your thoughts! I don't take any credit for this since I just weaved the great technologies others already made together!

Re: Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites

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Seems cool at first glance! I've never heard of Handshake, will be looking at that more in particular.

So I see the address in the screenshot starts with federalist://

Is it possible to access these sites with a normal web browser from the internet too?

Re: Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites

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Well done, good luck. Always wanted to implement something like this. > dmt (mutable torrent BEP-46), Is dmt supported (made scalable?!) by the existing torrent infra structure (DHT/trackers/etc??). Sorry if this question doesnt make sense.

Also, is this suitable for publishing an RSS-like feed which out polluting the world with a new torrent for each atom?

Re: Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites

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post #7

Seems cool at first glance! I've never heard of Handshake, will be looking at that more in particular. So I see the address in the screenshot starts with federalist:// Is it possible to access these sites with a normal web browser from the internet too?

from the look of it, you will need to have the handshake resolver installed and replaced as your local dns resolver. With that it will return you a the public key address on the bittorrent DHT which can be solved by some torrent client.

There it should have a torrent info payload that your client can turn into a ordinary torrent, where you can proceed to download the files, and can open in your browser on your local filesystem.

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