Y @yonkeltron

What happened to Dat?

What ever happened to the Dat protocol? It seemed like it was going so strong and now there’s this confusing site about everything but the protocol.

dat-ecosystem - explore p2p projects dat-ecosystem is a post-web p2p community of projects - Most projects are self funded. Some of the projects contribute maintainance and development to core pieces of the Dat ecosystem while others create high level applications built on top of p2p protocols. dat-ecosystem.org
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S @serge

For some reason I thought you were going to bring up BEEP, not DAT, but let's get into it!

I worked on a protocol briefly called Datashards which was an attempt to unify several other attempts at making simple CAS storage.

I think of the challenges all these protocols have, Hypercore (DAT's new name) included is that unless they're accompanied by an application, they aren't of much use.

IPFS and Freenet/Hyphanet, for all their oddities are actually in use- niche use sure, but in use.

And some of the ways DAT solved problems seems to be superseded. CRTDs weren't invented yet.

What do you think the reason was?

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