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?
The general research program seems very interesting, things like Embark have that special kind of simplicity that comes from long and deep thinking about a problem.
In particular,
https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/
has come up multiple times here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855556
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30845034
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39249631
and I'd love to try it out, but AFAICT there aren't any repositories/releases available.