For example Beaker Browser and Impervious Browser seem to have been shelved several years hence.
Are there any other peer-to-peer browsers worth inspection?
#p2p #browsers
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@retro @cypherpunk The only #p2p browser I know of still being developed is @agregore by @mauve
@craigoverend @retro @cypherpunk @agregore @peersky @akhileshthite There's also been some bittorrent attempts. We have a matrix channel with some folks here: https://matrix.to/#/%23decentralized-browsers:matrix.org
I am looking at agregore browser.
Question: what would be a quick onramp to share a directory of files or browse a remote directory of files using a decentralized protocol? Which protocol might be simplest to set up and configure?
My idea is to avoid having to study another programming language or DSL to use a new tool.
@retro @craigoverend @cypherpunk Hey! I added a button to upload files to the file viewer. You can make a new p2p site and upload whatever you want into it and share the link with another agregore instance. hyper://agregore.mauve.moe/apps/create.html
@mauve @retro @cypherpunk
Nice, works well here in both Agregore and Peersky. Though I am encountering a rendering bug on agregore://sites on Windows not loading css. If I reload the page it renders fine. Any plans to add Create under the File menu?
@craigoverend @retro @cypherpunk Dang I think I saw the rendering bug on Linux once too. Is every time? Having create in the File menu is a great idea! Maybe a separate one for a new p2p site or a new file in your default site? I was thinking if adding it to the welcome page beside the link to make a new app.
@mauve My natural instinct was to ignore the Welcome page and explore the icons and menus to see what I could do. 🙈
Making Create and Local Sites more visible to this monkey as a menu & icon would make it more obvious it's part of the browser. Then you just need an Explore for real-time querying of peers so its easy to find p2p content and give people incentive to make it and host it themselves.
@craigoverend Right! Yeah adding more to the menu is a good idea. I usually have it hidden so I haven't been giving it much love. Explore which dynamically finds stuff on the network has been on my TODO. The hard part is combatting spam and malicious peers as well as user privacy. I was thinking of having a central ish index people could apply to + being able to load starred sites from your friends.
