Solid

Is there a working demo which we can try?

OMG, this is all built on RDF/FOAF? Having serious flashbacks to 2008... I don't see how this isn't DOA... why is Solid any more... solid... than previous/concurrent attempts at decentralizing [social] apps (Mastodon, Diaspora, et al)? Sigh.

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.

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