Comment by defanor

I found it rather confusing that "local-first" is defined here roughly as "real-time collaboration software that doesn't rely on a central server". But with this definition it's close to saying "CRDTs can be useful for their purpose".

The examples (MS Office, Trello, Dropbox, etc) also seemed strange to me: I'd think that neither an average MS Office user would care about privacy, data ownership, etc, nor an average nerdy user who cares about those would want to use something like MS Office or Trello. Then there's plenty of easier to solve and related issues that aren't yet solved (e.g., plain offline usage of some software, more widespread asynchronous collaboration), and the article talking about privacy and data ownership ends with "We welcome your thoughts, questions, or critique: @inkandswitch or [email protected]". Looks like a nice summary, but maybe a bit otherworldly.