decentralized and local-first services

The article Run your own social which I found via BoingBoing is interesting. If you put the question of why anyone would want another time-thief in their life (yes, a new service will come as an addition, not as a replacement) it explains a way to do it, not only the technical issues, but what it requires of effort in other areas too.

One of the sources / inspirations is the Local-first software article. The authors have built some interesting prototypes based on conflict-free replicated datatype or CRDT that shows that distributed tools are possible without using hosted or centralized servers.

2019-08-06 update: Freedombone and YunoHost also looks interesting. I should check them out when I find free time for it.