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> Are centralized servers, financial institutions and surveillance all required components of the anonymous, decentralized, peer-to-peer web? Servers and financial institutions will never go away, no matter how hard we try. I'm hoping that we can make surveillance go away by sharing much less data with organisations who rely on surveillance to survive. Hashbase is not "centralized" in the sense that you are always free to choose a different provider of its hosting services. You can host your own Hashbase: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase You can even choose multiple providers at once, providing you with resilience in case one of your chosen providers violates your trust, eg. by losing your data or using it to spy on you.

> Typically this is possible. Images aren't subject to CORS. You're right, that was a misleading example. I changed it to data.json to be more clear. > If you publish a dat archive, how do you notify Hashbase to pin it? Can you do it through dat? Does it require setting up an account on Hashbase, providing an email address, linking a credit card, etc.? The "Pinning" system is very similar to Git remotes. You can pin using any endpoint that complies with https://www.datprotocol.com/deps/0003-http-pinning-service-a.... So, similar to a git remote, you do need some kind of authentication with the pinning service - unless somebody writes one that's open for anybody to push to. The UX flow will be similar to a git remote as well, you use an HTTPS to tell the server to sync the dat. So, it's an explicit user action. We've got two nodejs impleme

Really neat to see beaker broswer support native P2P with progressive enhancements like github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase providing the cute URL's we all like. I'm sure hashbase.io will be blocked really quick, so it's important that the core P2P address system stay in the forefront. Transports also need to find many ways to communicate over https, shadowsocks, tor, DNS, and others.

> If you publish a dat archive, how do you notify Hashbase to pin it? This is provided by hashbase in their ui. Sign up for an account and add your dat. It is email based, no credit card/address unless you go over the data cap. If you are uncomfortable using the service you can run your own node, it is open source: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase