Solid – Reshape the web as we know it
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Solid – Reshape the web as we know it
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#2His blog post announcing solid - https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/one-small-step-for-the-we...
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#3I don't quite understand "how". It all sounds magical.
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#5Maybe I am just naive, but this all seems terrible. There are paragraphs of ideology everywhere for every aspect of this and nothing boils down to any understandable description of what engineering mechanisms I can use or how it solves the problems laid out.
I really want to like this, but if I spend 15 minutes clicking the guides, the “build a solid app on your lunch break” link, and going all over the site, and I still don’t have the foggiest idea of the actual engineering mechanisms, something is wrong.
It is hard for me to believe some consortium of really knowledgeable web architects and inventors made this. It feels like a PR website with attractive purple colors to make me feel cozy. But I want to know really how it works!
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#6This sounds like Blockstack. They've been in production with this for at least a year now.
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#7Please change "solid" to "Solid" (note capital) in the title.
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#8applications :(
Does anyone else feel nostalgia for the pre-"web app" days of the internet? I'm talking about personal sites on Geocities and web rings built on communities of shared interest.
The browser was an application for navigating hyperlinked information. Other applications include email clients, news readers, FTP clients, and IRC clients. You never had to download a megabyte of minified JavaScript just to read a 500-word article; you never would, since it took about ten minutes to download a megabyte on a blazingly fast 14.4 modem.
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#9His blog post announcing solid - https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/one-small-step-for-the-we...
One would think that after a few years of working on this he'd have built a place to post content using it.
EDIT: at least there's the original outside medium on their project page, but seems like just a static squarespace page: https://www.inrupt.com/blog/one-small-step-for-the-web
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#10https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works
Ok, I like it. Throw in some homomorphic encryption in the future, and maybe we can reverse all this SaaSS nonsense of today.
I love the data stays owned by the user. It's how it should be. I hope the system has some provisions against applications encrypting the data on on user's POD.