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by pkdpic 1472 days ago
Thats super helpful thank you!

Still curious if theres a side of this idea thats about local first software in a more regional or niche demographic sense. Like instagram but just for Oakland, or GrubHub but just for Austin. Im sure there are infinite problems associated with that sort of idea but still curious if theres some movement / push for that as well as this state-related stuff.
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Dachande663 1472 days ago
I think this is confusion based on “local”.

There’s geographical locality e.g. apps like ChatRadar[0] that show information from nearby.

And then there’s data-locality e.g. is the data stored on your device or does it all ultimately live on a server somewhere that’s the authoritative source of truth.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/chatradar-local-discussion/id1...

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bombcar 1472 days ago
Exactly. Your apps should work basically as well with no internet access, instead of either failing completely or becoming slow and sluggish.
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