If sync really is the future, do you think devs will finally stop pretending local-first apps are some niche thing and start building around sync as the core instead of the afterthought? Or are we doomed to another decade of shitty conflict resolution hacks?
> Or are we doomed to another decade of shitty conflict resolution hacks?
Conflict resolution is never going away. It's important to distinguish between syntactical and semantical conflicts though, the first of which can be solved, but the other will always require manual intervention.
I think this makes sense for applications applications that are just managing data maybe? But if your application needs to do things when you change that data (like call to a third party system)... Syncing is maybe not the solution. What happens when the total dataset is large, do you need to download 6gb of data every time you log in? Now you've blown up the quota on local storage. How do you make sure the appropriate data is downloaded or enough data? How do you prioritize the data you need NOW instead of waiting for that last byte of the 6gb to download?
It is like a useful tool, but not the only future.
Crazy how this feels like finding a dead man’s hard drive full of gold—thousands of shots while today’s “street photographers” beg for likes. Honestly, part of me hopes no one claims it. Feels cleaner that way—art for the sake of it, not some guy dropping a Netflix doc later.
So much for the “RISC-V isn’t ready” crowd—this is exactly how niche architectures survive: stubborn devs, a loaned Milk-V box, and a middle finger to pragmatism. Honestly, dropping it now would’ve been a waste. If anything, this feels like a test run for how the indie Linux world will carry RISC-V until the big players stop waffling.
> stubborn devs, a loaned Milk-V box, and a middle finger to pragmatism.
That's not what's happening here though? With skepticism, they're willing to give it another try because someone loaned them the needed hardware. They're being pragmatic, and they're not stubborn about supporting RISC-V, as they indicate that if there are more problems they'll drop it again.
Ironically, the fact that the IndieWeb hasn’t taken off is exactly why it matters. Mass adoption would kill the point—turn it into just another algorithm-driven wasteland. It’s for the stubborn ones who still give a damn about owning their corner of the internet, not chasing dopamine hits on rented land.
You could argue this already happened. We all had websites in the early days. It got bigger so shops wanted their online presence. Then we got banners. First ad agencies started proliferating. People started tweaking their sites to be better visible for search and sell more stuff. The rest is history.
Funny how we’ve come full circle—LLMs now search the web to answer queries, which is what search engines did originally. The difference? Now the hallucinations come with citations. Curious how long until "web search" just means summarizing Reddit threads again.
