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by bren2013 2827 days ago
Not sure if this fully addresses your use-case, but I like the idea of serving a static bootloader from IPFS. The bootloader would contain all of a website's assets, and code for getting dynamic content from a backend. The backend could be:

- A central API where the bootloader can do arbitrary validation on the API responses.

- WebTorrent, Scuttlebutt, IPFS PubSub, etc.
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marknadal 2827 days ago
Yes, that is already what the P2P Reddit does, but without IPFS (although this is a good idea!), and using GUN as the "backend" (fully P2P/decentralized though), SEA for validation/security (no need for a central one), and DAM for pubsub (no flooding problems like in libp2p) which can do WebRTC.

I'm sure people would love to see an IPFS version of a bootloader, instead of HTTP, that is a cool idea. Have a repo for it?

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