Anytype

Last updated Aug 25, 2022

• Type atom
• Status needs revision

• They aim to build an operating system for sovereign people and their networks.
• Current software suns on the App Metaphor that hasn’t changed since 1080s.
  • Proprietary file formats
  • No intra-app communication
• In the late 90s applications moved into the cloud, creatin the web of today.
  • Developers became owners of our identities, objects, and networks.
• What’s wrong with that?
  • Scattered objects
  • Slow innovation
  • Surveillance
  • Censorship
  • Monopolized value
• An operating system for digital objects
  • New metaphor: Graph of objects instead of siloed apps
  • New business model: Digital Cooperative
  • New architecture: local-first, p2p
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• Stage 1: Sovereign individual
  • Private objects.
  • Current stage of Anytype.
  • Interconnected data
  • Privacy
  • Speed
  • Offline use
• Stage 2: Sovereign Communities
  • Publishing and collaboration
  • Intuitive and powerful tools
  • Own information and networks
  • No censorship
  • Connected to blockchain protocols
• Stage 3: Sovereign Digital Cooperative
  • Open-source operating system collectively owned and co-created by everyone who contributes and participates in the network.
• How it works?
  • Objects instead of apps and websites
    • Everything is an object.
  • From objects to a graph
  • Relations are the connections with objects
  • Each object has type
    • All objects are different. Some are similar to each other.
  • Sets are collections of objects sharing some relations
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