The way I've been using it for a few years is that most of my machines can see each other and I have a shared folder and versioning setup. As I add things they move between the different machines and once an additional machine has it it is available to the others until everything is in sync
You can definitely do chain topologies which are useful for certain things with a single source of truth
The only Maui you should be using is the original https://mauikit.org/