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		0xCMP on May 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Local-first software: You own your data, in spite ... Yes Scuttlebutt is a big inspiration among others. I believe the primary change/improvement I'm making is that it runs on the device and is also focused on the user's data instead running on a server or doing distributed social networking. Reading [1] makes it seem to me like I might just be reinventing Lotus Notes.

jhardy54 on May 3, 2019 [–]

> it runs on the device and is also focused on the user's data

Only a few of us run servers, most people just run Scuttlebutt on their device so that they can their data as well as their friends' data:

- Windows, macOS, and Linux: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork

- Android: https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/

- iOS: WIP

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