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I would love for local-first to become the norm again, at least for some stuff like document collaboration.
P2P had its day, but perhaps it can rise again!
Cloud software is a prison or, more accurately, Hotel California. Cloud infrastructure, however, doesn’t need to be the same.
Would Git be considered local-first software? Could you call it’s data structures CRDTs?
There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer.
Local-first all the way!
Cloud software is like being married, but your wife lives with another guy a few cities over. Someone else is benefitting at your expense.
So many great software products go downhill once the desktop versions are put on the back burner for cloud-based versions: , Evernote, Picasa (Google Photos), so many accounting/finance software, etc.
I fucking hate wired’s dramatic clickbait headlines so much lol. I’ll believe it when I see it, because corporations love “the cloud”. It’s way cheaper than on prem, usually less downtime, and you can blame someone else when your system goes down.
Ok but local first p2p software doesn’t rely on centralized servers. So it’s not a huge deal if you don’t have always on servers. Hell you can probably avoid servers all together.
I mean you’d still need servers right, local first p2p means your data is stored locally and elsewhere, which would also be a privacy nightmare for corporations.
Selective peering is a solution here some. Encryption by default and other “ZeroTrust” centered security modeling can make it more possible.
That banner just makes go “1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10… 11 12!” in my head :p
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