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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.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 3•2 years ago
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.
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