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Bring-your-own-sync! Apps can be local-first, reading and writing to files on the device. Then each user can choose their own syncing service like Syncthing or
by wonger_ 2y ago
Bring-your-own-sync!
Apps can be local-first, reading and writing to files on the device. Then each user can choose their own syncing service like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which runs in the background and automatically syncs those files to your other devices.
- eightysixfour 2y agoThat sounds miserable. This is why apps end up enshittified with forced cloud services.
- jasonjayr 2y agoFor apps that use the local system, and after fighting through google's restrictions, syncthing has been a dream between my android, windows + linux systems. I Don't have to think about it. The restrictions imposed by the platform is why each app needs to have it's own half-implemented sync to it's own platform or some other cloud provider.