It’s challenging to design a social collaboration layer for distributed/decentralized productivity apps. - Users are very familiar with opening a web app and performing mutations (often with an account that is specific to this app). An example is adding a comment to a PR on GitHub. - In a decentralized setting, you often have cryptographic identity, which means that you have to sign mutations (or really anything that needs to be identifiable). This is currently tricky to do in a web browser (unless there are solutions I am not familiar with). - So the pattern often is, mutate in the desktop app which has easy access to the private key. Web views become view-only (mostly for public data). - Web apps are typically very useful for accessing information edited by many people easily. - Is web very tied to the client-server model? Do we need a post-web social layer when we do things with cryptographic identity?