• @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    211 months 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.

  • Arghblarg
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    111 months ago

    That banner just makes go “1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10… 11 12!” in my head :p

  • @Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    011 months 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
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      111 months 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
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        011 months 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
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          111 months ago

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