Solid - A decentralized web by Tim Berners Lee, creator of the WWW

No surprises it comes from the creator of WWW, as the whole idea is basically a hyperlinked web, but instead of servers we have individuals. While it seems to work well for ToDo and Mail apps, I wonder how apps that create some kind of a network (aka Facebook) or rely heavily on big data (aka Google) will actually work at scale using this concept. The biggest concern that I have is that this approach doesn't create any new end-user use cases nor improves significantly any qualities. Owning the data without controlling its full flow is just an extra burden for me as a user. From the developer point of view the only case when I would want to build my app based on Solid is when I don't need the data at all, like some purely transactional or presentational app.

Oh sounds interesting... still have to share data to apps to access the internet. Hmmm... humans.

Anyone interested in this can also check IPFS.

TBL is the genius who started it, I am more than willing to hear his solutions, join the team!

Pros:

Independent ID mechanics will reduce the power of politicians while increasing the public (common) good. well, hopefully

Cons:

It's becoming too late

if your data is hosted with a provider, what keeps that provider from harvesting your data? What makes it secure?

Interesting but since there is no way to prevent apps from copying the data, I see no point. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It's positive to see competition in the field of decentralized web! @timberners_lee how do you see Solid compared to Blockstack?

Richard Hendricks is that you ?

Is it a company or is it movement? Is it hardware or software? Is it for me or for developers? Is it “Solid” or “Inrupt” or “POD”? Is it contextual around me and my data or around how companies develop around the internet? How does it “start” - do i do something or do companies build it into existing infrastructure? Its trying to say so many things it doesn't adequately focus on any one. this marketing makes me so angry - this seems like such a needed and important focus that id hate to see it fail to go anywhere because people will fail to understand what is being “sold” here. Is it just me?

This is kind of the ultimate product I've been looking for. Always a fan of privacy.