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Payments on the Solid Framework

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Re: Payments on the Solid Framework

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Post by Renaud »

The solid infrastructure looks promising to me. Based on the other submission today on Solid[1], there are varying opinions on whether it will take off and really be able to challenge the big social media.

However, I think we _need to want_ this to succeed, even if there are other ideas of what decentralised architectures should look like.

It may not be the best system to everyone, but it has some clout with Tim Berners-Lee behind it and its architecture and capabilities can -and will- evolve. It looks to me like our best chance to start 'disrupting' the current status-quo, even if it flies under the radar for a while.

I can imagine an Instagram-like app that would let me import a take-out archive from my Instagram account and just let me continue where I left off. Maybe I would need to rebuild a user-base, but that's OK, there would be new people on that platform and and more control over what I want to see, rather than some ad-optimized algorithm deciding for me.

A payment systems built on top could allow direct monetisation for content-creators without having to go through a 3rd party that enforces arbitrary rules over what content gets and doesn't get monetized.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895

Re: Payments on the Solid Framework

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Post by ryanjshaw »

Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty good understanding of them. I cannot understand anything on this entire site. Does anybody know what this is all about?

Re: Payments on the Solid Framework

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Post by Bogdanp »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #3

Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty good understanding of them. I cannot understand anything on this entire site. Does anybody know what this is all about?

I feel the same way.

I've read through the whole thing and it's essentially a hand-wavy marketing pitch without any concrete details. At one point they link to a repo containing some node code (2-year-old code, mind you), but that didn't exactly help elucidate things for me.

Re: Payments on the Solid Framework

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Post by jmunsch »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #3

Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty good understanding of them. I cannot understand anything on this entire site. Does anybody know what this is all about?

From what I understood it uses RDF triples, linked data, and uses an ontology, that is compatible with Solid aka linking a "Person" to a "Wallet" and actions to a transaction/service/resource

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

[2]: https://docs.solidpay.org/appendix-a-sample-data

Re: Payments on the Solid Framework

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #8

It is pretty interesting and kinda disappointing to see renowned tech luminaries hopping on the hype train left and right.

Or maybe there's something to it, and it's still being worked on?

I have no opinion either way on Solid (yet), but the comments on these submissions seem extremely critical considering they're still rolling it out and it's a work in progress.

When I read the OP link above, and the other submission today, I just see an early-stage project that is still being actively developed, no different to thousands of other projects posted on HN.

I do think their marketing/buzzword approach to be a bit "thick", but that could also be said about 90% of HN-loved products/services.

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