The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
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.)
https://archive.is/7SpV8
That was a pretty long article very storytelling focussed.
My takeway is automerge exists and maybe that collaborative text tool, upwelling, will be ready some day.
Maybe they're ways to target the "end user" instead of spawning more tools for devs.
A great first app for this this type of algorithm would be an open-source replacement for Google Keep/Apple Notes.