[a_conservative]

I'm a CRDT newbie, but I'll take a stab, hopefully someone can correct me if I'm getting it wrong.

After a quick reading the "CRDTs go brr" and the wikipedia page, I think CRDT gives us a mathematical strategy for resolving conflicts. It doesn't mean that the end result will make sense.

The Wikipedia article gives an example of merging an event flag represented by a boolean variable. So the var in this case means that "someone observed this event happening". So the rule for merging this var from different sources is simple, if any source of data reports the var as true, the merged result should be true as well.

The implication is it matters what the data represents, not just whether it is a boolean or a string, etc.

I'm guessing that a colloborative notes field, or a "did someone call this customer" boolean might benefit from a CRDT more so than keeping track of bank account values.