This was exactly my thought. The title is 'A local, privacy first Notion alternative', but the site talks about

> can I own my piece of the new internet today?

Which screams 'digital assets'. Why do I need to 'own a piece of the new internet', why can I not just own... a set of notes on my machine?

The section which espouses the goals of the project smells similarly Web3

> We have a chance to end the nation state's monopoly on trust the same way as the printing press ended the church’s monopoly on truth.

Again like, I don't know how 'privacy-first Notion alternative' also somehow involves dismantling nation states.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love a free implementation of Notion (and by the UX of this landing page I don't doubt the developers have the resources and skills to do so), but I'd prefer that if this somehow involves digital assets and blockchains that it be front-and-center?

I don't see the source for anytype on their github org, but I do see forks of various go libraries: ipfs, libp2p (protocol layer abstracted from ipfs), badger (a kv store), mongo, goldmark (markdown parser), amplitude (product analytics... "privacy-first"?!), etc. This doesn't mean that these libraries will definitely be used but it seems to paint a clearer picture of what it will be than the marketing team's meaningless self-flagellation that is the overdone homepage.

If it quacks like a DAO and it walks like a DAO...

"I was in the recent alpha onboarding, and it was mentioned in the long-term (I don’t recall completely and I’m probably wrong) you’ll set yourself up as a DAO to, in short, manage the main public instance of Anytype (I assume like rewarding 3rd party providers, decide on new features, etc.)" [0]

(November '21)

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(my throwaway thoughts)

Perhaps we're entering a new phase of crypto projects -- in an analoguous way to crypto-fascism [1] where the "crypto" part refers to "cryptic" i.e. hidden, it's possible that crypto(currency) projects are starting to be self-aware enough to not mention their roots, even though they are in fact blockchain-based.

You could say that this is crypto-crypto i.e. Crypto 2.0!

[0] https://community.anytype.io/t/long-term-future-decentralisa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-fascism

I could imagine a post-crypto-crypto state, where projects that don't die first abandon their overt blockchain framing, and then actually abandon the blockchain entirely.

E.g., ten years from now OpenSea evolves into a completely centralized system for digital assets.

Too bad about Anytype. It looks like yet another project with many good ideas ruined by blockchain ideology.

Anytype works on a peer-to-peer stack (as torrents), so there is no blockchain needed at this stage.

FFS can someone please advise what "DAO" is? >.>

Thank-you.

Decentralized Autonomous Organization. It's a joint-stock company but based on shitcoins.

And what is FFS? Fast forwarding service?

We are looking for sustainable way to govern our ecosystem in such a way that it does not depend on a single point of control. We are considering becoming a DAO and are researching this opportunity. No exact details are given, because we don’t have an answer yet.

As for the product itself, it does not use any blockchain