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Local AI, together

Moss can now turn speech into text. It does this on your own computer, with an open speech model, and nothing you say is sent anywhere to be processed. That part is what people usually mean by "local AI", and it's good. But it's the smaller half of what we've done. The larger half is the pattern: collaborative transcription. Instead of one machine listening to everyone, each person's computer transcribes that person's own voice and shares the text with the others. The transcript the group sees is assembled from pieces...

Eric Harris-Braun 8 Oct 2026

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Moss, in the same room

Moss has always kept your group's stuff on your own computer. But a few everyday things still went through the internet: finding the other people in your group, getting a new person into the group, and getting the tools the group uses. So if you and your group were sitting around the same table and the internet went away, Moss couldn't do much for you. Over the past month we've worked on all three. They're in Moss 0.16.0-dev.8, and together they mean a group of people on the same Wi-Fi...

Eric Harris-Braun 30 Sep 2026

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WebRTC without a signaling server

WebRTC is supposed to be peer-to-peer. In practice, it is not. Almost every WebRTC call today depends on servers that someone has to run. The libraries that support WebRTC carry that centralized assumption into their design. This post is about pulling WebRTC back toward peer-to-peer. It is also about the tooling that Holochain apps, and the rest of the peer-to-peer world, need to get there. Two libraries came out of the work on Presence, our video-call tool for Moss, and we extracted both to that end. This post is about...

Eric Harris-Braun 23 Sep 2026

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Moving the Moss tools to Holochain 0.7

A major Holochain bump is both a chore and an opportunity. The chore is much easier now, because LLMs do almost all of the grunt work, and there's a nice skill that does it well. The opportunity is that while I'm doing the manual test walk-through to make sure everything works, I notice bugs (serious and otherwise), as well as UX issues that really need addressing. Over the past couple of weeks I've done the full suite of updates, fixes and enhancements to all of our Moss tools in the...

Eric Harris-Braun 14 Sep 2026

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Welcome to the Moss Blog

Welcome to the Moss blog! We’re excited to have this space to share updates, insights, and stories about building truly peer-to-peer collaboration tools. What is Moss? Moss is a peer-to-peer, privacy-first groupware designed for small teams who want to work together without relying on centralized platforms. Built on Holochain technology, Moss gives groups: True ownership of their data and communications Customizable tools that adapt to their specific needs Privacy by design - no surveillance, no tracking Open source foundation for transparency and community contribution Why We’re Building This We believe...

Eric Harris-Braun 11 Sep 2026