Solid

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

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

14 followers

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Data visualization tools

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Web3

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Authentication & identity tools

Solid is a platform, built using the existing web. It gives every user a choice about where data is stored, which specific people and groups can access select elements, and which apps you use.

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

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7yr ago

Moonbit

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

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7yr ago

Hey guys, Do you need a UI/UX Designer on board? I would be interested to work on your project for a better interface 😃

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7yr ago

OK so I understand the benefits of this system and I think it’s a grand plan. HOWEVER, as a web developer for over 22 years, I don’t even understand the fundamentals of it. This entire concept will fail to replace the current Internet if people the world at large can’t understand the system. I can tell you right now my grandmother isn’t going to install her own server for this. Neither are 99% of Internet users. Most people don’t care how it works or have the time to learn, so long as it does. Why not just have an app you download from the App Store or similar that takes care of the heavy lifting for you? Amazing idea, but extraordinarily poor execution.

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7yr ago

Introwise

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.

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7yr ago

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

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7yr ago

To adopt something like this would require someone like Google to jump on board. But Google and other companies don't have a single benefit from this, I think.

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7yr ago

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