hey @slack, i'm interested in the idea of "pub-as-a-service", to help make it easier to host a pub for your local social network, thereby providing stronger guarantees about the availability of content for you and your friends. i'm less interested in using smart contracts to replace community interactions.

but from what you've said, you might be confusing scuttlebutt (this protocol we're currently using) with dat, and scuttlebutt has a different architecture to dat. rather than global networks (where everyone can connect to everyone) hosting only blobs, scuttlebutt focuses on local networks (where anyone can only connect to those who follow them) hosting append-only logs and blobs). in scuttlebutt it doesn't make sense to have "anonymous" hosting of content, because the network between computers is by design the same as the network between humans, so you can't hop around the swarm just because.