https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
This applies in the vast majority of cases. Some exceptions seem like pure services. Zapier, for example, is mostly logic that connects others' databases through APIs. But even here, your built-up Zaps are stored in their database and make it less likely you'll switch to IFTTT. Plaid connects financial databases, but the authorizations must still b... See more
Danny Zuckerman • Data composability: what it is + why it matters
People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. The premise for web1 was that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content as well as a publisher and consumer of infrastructure... If there’s one thing I hope we’ve learned about the world, it’s that people do not want to run their own servers.
moxie.org • My first impressions of web3
1. The decline of platform lock-in: The blessing (for the company) and curse (for the customer) of most Web2 businesses is lock-in — your most important data stays on the platform where you created it.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
Once again, a creative community faces an unsure future because it doesn’t have any ownership or control over the infrastructure on which it depends.