IPFS seems to me to be a bit over-engineered whereas dat is a lot more simple/low level - something that suits my way of working really well.
I also love simpler things. I'd be curious to understand where is IPFS over-engineered and where is Dat better, instead.
Could this be used as a "distributed archive" to store any kind of information? Or does Dat only store some type of data? For example, could I have a "Dat dataset" containing a local Git repo, and every time I update my repo the new files are distributed to whoever is "watching" my dataset?
Under the hood, there are two implementations: hyperdrive and hypercore. Hyperdrive is a filesystem for storing any kinds of files. Hypercore can store any kind of data and is really great for streaming data (hyperdrive is built on top of it).
I was thinking of sharing a Git directory, directly from my computer instead of using any centralized provider such as GitHub/NotABug.
> Hypercore can store any kind of data and is really great for streaming data
is there any web "bridge" available. I'm thinking in particular about streaming data over the P2P network, but also accessible on the web (for example for streaming a video).