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I'm Building Habitat (carlnewton.github.io)
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I posted a few months ago asking if there would be any desire for such a social platform, on which I had a lot of wonderful feedback from you guys. So I thought I'd write this post to let anyone that's interested know that it is being built, and you're welcome to lend a hand!

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This sounds great!

Are you familiar with the local-first tenets? Seems like a natural fit for the local nature of your app:

https://youtu.be/NMq0vncHJvU

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, I gave this a watch but their use of the word 'local' doesn't match mine in this case. When I use the word local, I'm referring to a geographic area, or at least a server that represents a geographic area. It looks like when local-first talk about local, they're referring to interaction on a device. It would be nice to be able to have habitat not require an internet connection to queue a post, this is a great idea and I'll look into that, but their point on "it should still work on device if the remote server is down (or even disappears forever)" I don't believe is possible when we're building a community platform. Or, at least, if such a thing is possible, I wouldn't know where to begin. I appreciate the heads-up though, I love that such a group exists.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I get that. What ‘works’ means in the context of local-first is flexible though. This might provide a useful framing: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/offline-is-online-with-extreme-latency/

In any case, you’re definitely right to focus on your specific use case first without trying to fit it into any specific paradigm. I’m excited to follow Habitat’s progress!

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