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.)
  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Woohoo, I’m no longer a paranoid delusional for not wanting to store all my documents and photos in Google’s Cloud. I’m a trendsetter!

    Joking aside, having local data control while also having the ability to share and collaborate online would be nice. Most businesses won’t have a need for it. But, for individuals, not being locked into to a particular provider is a good thing. Of course, it will come at the cost of convenience, it always does. And that’s a cost many people won’t be willing to pay.

    • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Quite the opposite @sylver_dragon@lemmy.world . I went to self-hosting everything precisely because I wanted to de-Google and de-cloud. Big Cloud proves over and over again that it lacks the responsibility, accountability, and motivation to take care of my identity. They only care about how they can make me their product.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      1 year ago

      Businesses who have a clue and a budget actually also have a need for local data control IMHO. Look at the hacking case with M365. And there’s decent local collaboration software too - wikis, things like syncthing, some of the newer 0 trust stuff.

      Let’s face it, the thing the cloud is good for is serving up completely public websites.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

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

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    121·
    1 year 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.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    111·
    1 year 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!

  • matjoeman@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

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

  • Steeve@lemmy.ca
    81·
    1 year 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
      31·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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·
          1 year ago

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