One of the trends for Cypherpunks will be local-first software. Local-first does not need a backend, or if it needs it, it's a dumb storage for encrypted data, often only just for synchronization/backup. Everything needed is stored locally.
Think accounting, personal photo albums, family chats, ...
One of the developers building tooling for these paradigms is Steida (nprofile…7l3y) . I've recently spoke to him and he explained to me who local-first scales better.
No data centers, no AWS, etc.
https://www.evolu.dev/blog/scaling-local-first-software
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