*> Effortless Collaboration: The app supports easy collaboration, even in offlin...

Animats · 2025-04-04T07:29:59 1743751799

Like resolving Git merge conflicts.

x0x0 · 2025-04-04T17:48:12 1743788892

well, see, if you just hand wave away the really difficult part, and ignore the other really difficult thing (we have a perfect track record over 40+ years of users being terrible at sysadmin of their own computers), then this local first thing is super easy.

edit: to be clear, local first is interesting in theory, but I need a little more than draw the rest of the fucking owl.

evbogue · 2025-04-04T07:31:32 1743751892

The author clearly is referring to cloud apps that require one to be online with their collaborator to edit. The alternative is a locally encrypted self-congratulated neural mesh network where one computes their own inputs to the hard drive.

evbogue · 2025-04-04T07:41:37 1743752497

Another option for offline collaboration I'd like to suggest is sharing a keyboard with a friend. It's local-first.

marginalia_nu · 2025-04-04T14:23:31 1743776611

Or, well, like git. You can use an entirely email based workflow with git if you want to.

Here's an overview: https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html