[svieira]

The whole point of Conflict-free Replicated Data Types is that you don't need an authoritative server. You're thinking of Operational Transform which does require an authority.

[dtkav]

While it is true that CRDTs don't require an authoritative server, the hub and spoke model (which could also be thought of as having a well-known always-online super peer) is more efficient and provides a better user experience. In practice most products that are built with CRDTs today use this model.

[__MatrixMan__]

I may have worded that poorly but my intent was to suggest that it would work better if there wasn't a server.

I didn't know the name for the serverful alternative though, so thanks for that.