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> From a user perspective, Dat (and ZeroNet) maps to folders and filesystems much more coherently than IPFS does.

How so? Once you have the hash of a folder in IPFS you can access its files and subfolders using the classic slash notation.

Take for example my web page at /ipns/pablo.rauzy.name, the structure under that folder is exactly the same as it is on the classical web version of my web page, and is accessed in the same way.

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Access it, yes, but you can't update it. Dat and ZeroNet both let you maintain a single hash with dynamic contents.

Your web page points to different hashes over time through IPNS, which is additional work for a user, and relies on IPNS instead of being part of IPFS directly.

Right. It's not possible to have both content based addresses (like IPFS) and identify based addresses (like ZeroNet, apparently Dat, but also Tor, I2P, and IPNS).

To me as a user, IPNS additional work isn't much more than sitePublish and then siteSign in ZeroNet. The first is equivalent to ipfs add, the second to ipfs name publish.

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