Politics and emotion at Local-First Conf

Adam Wiggins · 31 Jul 2026 · adamwiggins.com ↗

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Local-first technologies like CRDTs and open protocols can give nations more control over their critical software infrastructure.

Their wordsTechnologies from our community - CRDTs, sync engines, universal version control, and good old-fashioned open protocols and file formats - can give a nation more independence and control over its own critical software infrastructure.
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Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.

Their wordsWe acknowledge that mainstream software will largely be the creation of big tech companies, and that's ok.