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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:<p>Ich habe im <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://podcasts.social/@workingdraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>workingdraft</span></a></span> Podcast von Local-First erzählt. Hat nur zwei Stunden gedauert und wir hätten noch Themen für mindestens weitere sechs 😅</p><p>Es hat sehr viel Soaß gemacht, ich hoffe dass das rüber kommt 🙏</p><p>Wenn ihr noch Fragen habt: AMA!</p><p><a href="https://narrativ.es/tags/OfflineFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OfflineFirst</span></a> <a href="https://narrativ.es/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a><br><a href="https://podcasts.social/@workingdraft/115093572230365739" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">podcasts.social/@workingdraft/</span><span class="invisible">115093572230365739</span></a></p>
Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:<p>I’ll be talking about How to Sync Anything at the Local-First LoFi/#29 event tomorrow night.</p><p>You can join via the LoFi Discord (don’t @ me): <a href="https://lofi.so" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lofi.so</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>See you there! o/</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/yonz.bsky.social/post/3lx6qnr4mq22w" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/yonz.bsky.soc</span><span class="invisible">ial/post/3lx6qnr4mq22w</span></a> <a href="https://narrativ.es/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> <a href="https://narrativ.es/tags/OfflineFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OfflineFirst</span></a></p>
Yet another Josh :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.alancfrancis.com/@acf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>acf</span></a></span> </p><p>Right now, I can use a local LLM.</p><p>It uses no water, other than what I drink. And its like 30 watts of power, and half my video card.</p><p>I have games that consume more resources than my local LLMs.</p><p>I'm sure if you're using closed source, remote, proprietary LLMs like "openAI", yeah its terrible. Or crammed-down-the-throat AI bullshit on search engines.</p><p>But <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> is the real way forward.</p>
Tobias Bernard<p>Save the date! We'll have another edition of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoilingTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoilingTheOcean</span></a> in Berlin on October 3-5, right after All Systems Go. More details to follow 😎</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxmobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxmobile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>berlin</span></a></p>
Hex<p>What is this? Firefox pop-up wants me to use a proprietary chatbot hosted on someone else's computer? Stop this 💩!</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SelfHosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosted</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust</p><p><a href="https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/epicenter-so/epicen</span><span class="invisible">ter/tree/main/apps/whispering</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whispering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whispering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trust</span></a></p>
Ed Summers<p>gosuki is a new <a href="https://social.coop/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> open source (AGPL) bookmark manager that doesn't require a browser plugin since it simply listens for updates to your browser's bookmarks.</p><p><a href="https://gosuki.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gosuki.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It looks like in order to sync across devices you need to pay once ($59) for p2p-sync functionality. There isn't mobile support, other than a routine export of bookmarks, to a folder shared with syncthing (&amp; isn't syncthing on Android dead?)</p><p>Edit: it's not dead yet, see below.</p>
p2panda<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@adz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adz</span></a></span> of the panda gang is co-organizing the DWeb Seminar next week (August 13 - 15) at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> in San Francisco. It will be a gathering of researchers and developers around various peer-to-peer projects to reflect over the last years of building p2p systems and formulating ideas for the future.</p><p>During the DWeb Weekend (August 16 - 17) workshops and presentations are planned, including one on p2panda! Come if you are in this area!</p><p><a href="https://dwebseminar.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dwebseminar.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/dweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dweb</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2p</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a></p>
adz<p>Christian, Wendy, kev, nanomonkey, Dmitri and me organised this event here over the last months and finally it is happening next week at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> in SF!</p><p>The idea is to bring people together to reflect about the last years of building peer-to-peer software and formulate ideas for the future.</p><p><a href="https://dwebseminar.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dwebseminar.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* DWeb Seminar, August 13 - 15: we've invited ten researchers and developers from different p2p projects to come, cook and live together, share learnings and formulate a publication<br>* DWeb Weekend, August 16 - 17: Public days full of roundtable discussions, workshops, presentations and demos</p><p>Come and join us if you can! For Sunday we still have free slots for your talks and workshops.</p><p><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/dweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dweb</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2p</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/dwebseminar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dwebseminar</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/internetarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internetarchive</span></a></p>
Neighbourhoodie Software<p>As we saw at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@localfirstconf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>localfirstconf</span></a></span> this year, initial sync in <a href="https://toot.berlin/tags/OfflineFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OfflineFirst</span></a> and <a href="https://toot.berlin/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> can be tricky to build and slow for users. </p><p>Our team wrote up some ways <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pouchdb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pouchdb</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@couchdb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>couchdb</span></a></span> are able to do “Partial Data Fetching on Initial Load,” including filtered replication or switching to a remote DB. </p><p>More about these strategies and how to implement them on our blog: </p><p><a href="https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/07/16/partial-data-fetching-on-initial-load-with-pouchdb-and-couchdb?pk_campaign=mastodon%20partial%20load" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/07/</span><span class="invisible">16/partial-data-fetching-on-initial-load-with-pouchdb-and-couchdb?pk_campaign=mastodon%20partial%20load</span></a></p>
lebout2canap ⏚<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://veganism.social/@mascottus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mascottus</span></a></span> Ça va dans le sens du <a href="https://mastodon.tedomum.net/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a>, mais je me méfie de tout ce qui vient de Dorsey.</p>
p2panda<p>We've just published a new blog post about access control in decentralised systems!</p><p><a href="https://p2panda.org/2025/07/28/access-control.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">p2panda.org/2025/07/28/access-</span><span class="invisible">control.html</span></a></p><p>The post includes details about the design and implementation of our new p2panda-auth crate, along with a discussion of some of the technical challenges that arise when trying to solve access control in a decentralised context.</p><p><a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/p2panda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2panda</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2p</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/accesscontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accesscontrol</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groups</span></a></p>
Tobias Bernard<p>Summer is here, and so is another edition of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoilingTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoilingTheOcean</span></a> ☀️☀️☀️</p><p>On August 9th and 10th we'll be hosted by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@101lab" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>101lab</span></a></span> in Kreuzberg once again (thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@ben4climate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ben4climate</span></a></span>)! Join us for hacking and discussions about local-first sync, mobile Linux, image-based OSes, and more.</p><p>Save the date, more details TBA :)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>berlin</span></a></p>
p2panda<p>Oho! Here is a new in-depth p2panda blog post!</p><p><a href="https://p2panda.org/2025/07/09/streams-transactions-crash-resilience.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">p2panda.org/2025/07/09/streams</span><span class="invisible">-transactions-crash-resilience.html</span></a></p><p>This one is about the strategies and design ideas we’re exploring to make p2p applications resilient to critical failures, for both system- and application layers.</p><p><a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/p2panda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2panda</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p2p</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/databases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databases</span></a> <a href="https://autonomous.zone/tags/transactions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transactions</span></a></p>
Detlef Stern<p>Just released Zettelstore v0.22; <a href="https://zettelstore.de/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zettelstore.de/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (Changelog <a href="https://zettelstore.de/home/doc/trunk/www/changes.wiki#0_22" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zettelstore.de/home/doc/trunk/</span><span class="invisible">www/changes.wiki#0_22</span></a>) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zettelkasten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zettelkasten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zettelstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zettelstore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a></p>
Doug Holton<p><a href="https://vibes.diy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vibes.diy/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> is an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>, beginner-friendly vibe coding web app generation tool.<br>Announcement: <a href="https://fireproof.storage/posts/introducing-vibes-diy:-instant-apps-for-vibe-coders/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireproof.storage/posts/introd</span><span class="invisible">ucing-vibes-diy:-instant-apps-for-vibe-coders/</span></a><br>It's basically generating a single-page <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/React" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>React</span></a> app backed by Fireproof, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> database w/synchronization <a href="https://github.com/fireproof-storage/fireproof" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/fireproof-storage/f</span><span class="invisible">ireproof</span></a> and utilizing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenRouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRouter</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> inference.<br>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/VibesDIY/vibes.diy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/VibesDIY/vibes.diy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Interview w/developer <a href="https://changelog.com/podcast/647" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">changelog.com/podcast/647</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdTech</span></a></p>
Arie van Deursen<p>&gt; ‘In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.’</p><p>— Martin Kleppmann et al, Onward!, 2019</p><p><a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inkandswitch.com/essay/local-f</span><span class="invisible">irst/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/localfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localfirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Xabi<p>Zure datuak, zure kontrola.</p><p>Local-first softwareak datuak lokalean gordetzea lehenesten du, pribatutasuna, abiadura eta offline lan egiteko gaitasuna hobetuz. </p><p><a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inkandswitch.com/essay/local-f</span><span class="invisible">irst/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a></p>
Davide Eynard (+mala)Agentic AI
Dimly Lit Corners<p>Someone who dreams about "the next internet" </p><p>An interconnected self-configuring, robust, redundant, delay and disruption tolerant, transport layer agnostic, local-first network, owned, grown, &amp; maintained (for the common good) by communities &amp; individuals, forever providing <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalLiteracy</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalAutonomy</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/ForwardSecrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForwardSecrecy</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/PrivacyAndSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivacyAndSecurity</span></a>, supporting being offline, portability, &amp; roaming, without any permanent record, blockchain, middlemen, or any (global) authority getting in the way</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/InterNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InterNet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LocalFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalFirst</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CommunityEngagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityEngagement</span></a></p>