nope… that’s just local.

in that regard every text editor or any software that just CRUDs files locally would be local-first and the term would be meaningless

local-first means that it does not need internet-access to work and use the app and synchronization comes later, when there’s time and internet access. please read up on this.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

these are the guys who coined the term

edit: i originally wrote “local-first means that it does need internet-access to work and use the app…”, which is bullshit and also doesn’t make sense in the context. i added the “not” so it is clear.

If you have to use a third party app to sync, it’s not local-first, it’s just local.

i mean maybe some distros will add something, i don’t know. and i don’t care because i don’t have to. shit like that is deinstalled faster than an llm can print an emdash.

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