there's this project idea that I've been playing with for a while, it's a bit hard to describe but something like a P2P programming and data environment where both data and code are (content-)addressable, and where the 'code' part is designed for end users to work with to make their own data representations, and build personal but interoperable apps/sites/etc. that way
and this frustration, like so many frustrations I've had, kinda slots into that idea as well I think. what if notes were internally represented in an addressable data structure such that you could just eg. select some notes or paragraphs or objects within a note, right click "share with...", select a contact, and those notes would be sent P2P to that person, alongside every bit of custom representation code you wrote (or got from someone else!) that's needed to make it readable and interactable - optionally with a read-only or read-write 'key' to let them follow the updates you make or even collaborate on them
there's like, plenty of things that have some limited subset of this idea, but it's always defined and limited in a way where you can't really use it in any way other than what the developers envisioned, and it's always vendor-specific
what I want is a decentralized computing environment that makes minimal assumptions and gives maximum control to users, while taking care of the difficult and fragile P2P-network-y parts, ideally over more forms of connectivity than just the internet (eg. also meshnets)
but there's... a lot of pieces that are needed for this and I just haven't had the time to work on this much
a lot of these ideas have been inspired by various (generally sci-fi) stories talking about universally-connectable meshnets (Walkaway comes to mind but it's not the only one), and thinking about what the technical side of such a system might look like, how to design it such that it actually is to people's and communities' benefit, and such that it erases the "computing centralizes power in a way that physical reality doesn't" aspect as much as possible
because those kinds of stories often don't talk much about how such networks are designed or how power concentration is avoided in them and I think that's a shame because I do think there's something there
