Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet
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#2>Ditto is designed for "peer-to-peer" synchronization where it can directly communicate with other devices even without an internet connection. In addition, Ditto automatically manages the complexity of using multiple network transports, like Bluetooth, P2P Wi-Fi, and Local Area Network, to find and connect to other devices and then synchronize any changes.[1]
This is cool! I have no idea what's the use-case behind it, but it is really awesome if properly implemented (which seems like a gigantic challenge).
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Re: Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet
#4>Ditto is designed for "peer-to-peer" synchronization where it can directly communicate with other devices even without an internet connection. In addition, Ditto automatically manages the complexity of using multiple network transports, like Bluetooth, P2P Wi-Fi, and Local Area Network, to find and connect to other devices and then synchronize any changes.[1] This is cool ! I have no idea what's the use-case behind…
One use-case comes to mind is messaging for activists and journalists wanting to keep things private.
How would this compare to https://briarproject.org/ ? Have you generalized their protocol for many other applications?
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#5Good thing that it supports any authentication provider. Less good that it still needs a roundtrip to Ditto's servers to enroll each device after authentication.
Alternatively, for "truly" offline sync, a "license" token must still be obtained from Ditto's servers at some initial deployment phase.
Really cool library, but the dependency on Ditto's infrastructure is an itch to scratch.
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#7Ditto will always get an upvote from me. Awesome product, awesome team, awesome tech.
Re: Ditto: Real-time sync for apps even without the internet
#8>Ditto is designed for "peer-to-peer" synchronization where it can directly communicate with other devices even without an internet connection. In addition, Ditto automatically manages the complexity of using multiple network transports, like Bluetooth, P2P Wi-Fi, and Local Area Network, to find and connect to other devices and then synchronize any changes.[1] This is cool ! I have no idea what's the use-case behind…
My vision is that all the current use of IT should work in this mode. Depending on a central server for synchronization should be the exception, not the norm.
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#10Looks interesting but a few questions I don’t see answered in the docs:
How do permissions work? Ie if I had a notes app, and wanted users to only be able to upset and query _their_ notes, how do I make that happen?
Why no LAN for web browser mode? A pwa with offline support should be able to sync with other resolvable ips on the same pan, no? Hopefully WebBluetooth will be available soon too?