alt Hacker NewsIMO we need more sovereign systems like this (this is too simple IMO). Other sovereign systems are complex to deploy. if good FOSS commodity options come up, then we can expect a hosting/deployment infra and companies to setup and offer it for non self-hosters as well - ala WordPress.
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Jnr • today at 6:55 AM
Except this is not FOSS. If it was open source, they would have chosen at least AGPL.
And also I don't think their architecture is any good for such a product.
For me personally, it would be sufficient to avoid it based on the license alone. But altogether it just looks very unappealing.
kkfx • today at 7:49 AM
Since we have a single mind, we need "everything apps", this one shows various issues but the idea of an everything app is damm good.
That would simplify things, but in my opinion that is still too high a hurdle. I'm all about privacy and FOSS, but I don't self-host anything (except for my personal website).
I wish that more apps would instead move the logic to the client and use files on file syncing services as databases. Taking tasks as an example, if a task board were just a file, I could share it with you on Dropbox / Drive / whatever we both use, and we wouldn't need a dedicated backend at all.
The approach has limitations (conflict resolution, authorization, and latency are the big ones), but it is feasible and actually completely fine for lots of apps.