[frio]

Hi, I've been playing with making something similar myself -- although using IPFS rather than Dat. I notice you've married up Webmentions and Dat; how have you done that? The only real solution I've come up with is to run a bunch of regular services at an HTTP endpoint (for Webmentions, ActivityPub, Webfinger etc.) that then generate new builds of the static site, which gets added to IPFS.

[kickscondor]

Oh believe me - that's exactly what I'm doing :D Webmentions are very much made for HTTP - since they require an HTTP POST. A variation would have to be made for Dat.

(As an aside, I originally didn't like using Webmentions on a static site - I had planned on making a cron to periodically check for Webmentions and republish. But now I really appreciate that it goes hand-in-hand with moderating comments. I look over the incoming Webmentions, nuke any spam, and republish. No bad feelings about comments that sat in the queue for a day - they are still out on the web at their original URL.)