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TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

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TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

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.)

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

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