Every time I try these they never work, including this one. I’m not sure what the value prop is over just using a torrent client? Maybe when they’re less buggy they’ll become a thing.
Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
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Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#92I wonder if these colors are a kind of a watermark that are hardcoded as system instructions. Almost all slopware made using claude have the same color palette. So much for a random token generator to be this consistent
Yep, and I refuse to use sites that look like this. Lovable built frontend/landing pages have a similar feel. Instant lost of trust and desire to try it out.
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#94> XSS Protection - All HTML sanitized with DOMPurify > Malicious Code Removal - Dangerous tags and attributes filtered > Sandboxed Execution - Sites run in isolated iframe environment
I don't think that super makes sense. You probably just want the iframe sandbox and not remove all js. Or ideally put the torrent hash as the subdomain to use same origin policy.
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#95This is cool - I actually worked on something similar way back in the day: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext . It avoided the need to have any kind of intermediary website entirely. The cool thing was it worked at the browser level using experimental libdweb support, though that has unfortunately since been abandoned. You could literally load URLs like wtp://tomjwatson.com/blog directly in your browser.
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#96This is cool - I actually worked on something similar way back in the day: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext . It avoided the need to have any kind of intermediary website entirely. The cool thing was it worked at the browser level using experimental libdweb support, though that has unfortunately since been abandoned. You could literally load URLs like wtp://tomjwatson.com/blog directly in your browser.
What were your plans for advertising website updates? Classic RSS feed or something else?
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#97Cool. Some people complained about broken demos, I uploaded the mdwiki.info [1] website unaltered and seems to work fine [0]. MDwiki is a single .html file that fetches custom markdown via ajax relative to the html file and renders it via Javascript. [0]: https://peerweb.lol/?orc=b549f37bb4519d1abd2952483610b8078e6... [1]: https://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/
Why is it called MDwiki? It's clearly not a wiki.
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#99Ultimately I guess the distributed web is felled by economics thus far.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it is very difficult (and dangerous to the host) to serve user-uploaded videos at scale, particularly from a moderation standpoint. The problem is even worse if everyone is anonymous. There is a reason YouTube has such a monopoly on personal video hosting. Maybe developments in AI moderation will make it more palatable in the future.
The "host" is the user in this case. Every user that watches the video, shares the video. Given that discovery doesn't appear to be a part of this platform, any links would undoubtedly be shared "peer-to-peer" as well, so if you aren't looking at illegal things and don't have friends sending you illegal things to watch, it's perfectly safe.