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Aug 25, 2022
- 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

- 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
- 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
