Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)
  • matjoeman@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Would Git be considered local-first software? Could you call it’s data structures CRDTs?

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Cloud software is a prison or, more accurately, Hotel California. Cloud infrastructure, however, doesn’t need to be the same.

  • Steeve@lemmy.ca
    51·
    2 years ago

    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@beehaw.org
      21·
      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.

      • Steeve@lemmy.ca
        11·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • andruid@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          Selective peering is a solution here some. Encryption by default and other “ZeroTrust” centered security modeling can make it more possible.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    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!