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Read this article twice and can't understand what problem it is trying to solve and it's use cases. Can someone please explain it better?

Apparently it is a distributed file management system that is Local-first access control. What is the point if the data is on my machine then I have full access already so it already is local-first access?

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Maybe you're missing some other context.

Here's an article about local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Here's an article about why you might want this: https://medium.com/all-the-things/a-web-application-with-no-...

Here's another article about a previous attempt at solving this problem: https://herbcaudill.com/words/20240602-local-first-auth

and here's the associated readme for how that turned out: https://github.com/local-first-web/auth?tab=readme-ov-file#r...

Local first doesn’t mean local only. There are times where your device will need to sync data from a remote location/other peers. That data may be encrypted. This project is trying to solve for local access control in such situations.

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