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by jFatFinger 655 days ago
Read this article twice and can't understand what problem it is trying to solve and it's use cases. Can someone please explain it better?

Apparently it is a distributed file management system that is Local-first access control. What is the point if the data is on my machine then I have full access already so it already is local-first access?
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sorrythanks 650 days ago
Maybe you're missing some other context.

Here's an article about local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Here's an article about why you might want this: https://medium.com/all-the-things/a-web-application-with-no-...

Here's another article about a previous attempt at solving this problem: https://herbcaudill.com/words/20240602-local-first-auth

and here's the associated readme for how that turned out: https://github.com/local-first-web/auth?tab=readme-ov-file#r...

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jhunter1016 655 days ago
Local first doesn’t mean local only. There are times where your device will need to sync data from a remote location/other peers. That data may be encrypted. This project is trying to solve for local access control in such situations.
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