This looks awesome! A few questions if anyone knowledgable is around:
* Does Unwalled.Garden automatically pin the content of people you follow, so that their stuff stays online if they aren't?
* I didn't understand "We also use a second “private” dat for records which should be kept off the network". What is this referring to, the follow request, or some other private content like a DM? I assume that since this is still Dat there is no access control if you happen to know the address?
* How is reader privacy and DHT coming along with this ecosystem?
> Does Unwalled.Garden automatically pin the content of people you follow, so that their stuff stays online if they aren't?
It gets saved locally so you can access it when they're offline. It'll also be possible to instruct your pinning service to seed it on your behalf.
> I didn't understand "We also use a second “private” dat for records which should be kept off the network".
I'll talk more about this in the future as Beaker 0.9 is closer to release. We basically are creating a filesystem with a root dat (which is private). Your public dat will then be "mounted" to it at /public so it feels like one unified FS. The structure will look something like this:
/
/.data/.unwalled.garden/* <- private records
/public
/public/.data/.unwalled.garden/* <- public records
> How is reader privacy and DHT coming along with this ecosystem?
At this stage, I'm pretty sure we're going to need to use proxies to solve this. We're open to using an anonymity protocol like Tor but still uncertain about the tradeoffs.
* Does Unwalled.Garden automatically pin the content of people you follow, so that their stuff stays online if they aren't?
* I didn't understand "We also use a second “private” dat for records which should be kept off the network". What is this referring to, the follow request, or some other private content like a DM? I assume that since this is still Dat there is no access control if you happen to know the address?
* How is reader privacy and DHT coming along with this ecosystem?