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Their wordsThe fix is tombstones. Deleted IDs get recorded locally and flushed on the next sync, so a delete you make while offline or signed out doesn't get lost. The tempting alternative, diffing cloud against local, is a trap.
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Smart-scale apps gate your own data to protect their sales funnel, not for any technical reason.
Their wordsWhat sticks with me is that the paywall was never protecting anything technical. The protocol is public. The math is open source. The hardware will talk to anyone who asks in the right byte order. Those four taps weren't protecting the data. They were protecting the funnel.
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