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Oct. 1st, 2018 08:53 pmSaw some movement in the news about Tim Berner-Lee's Solid.
TL;DR: Hard to figure the whole point of it at a first glance.
As a matter of habit, I'm inclined to feel good about it, but let's be honest it looks like another piece of turn-everything-into-RDF-semantic-web-tinfoil-kill-google-with-fire-now kind of bonanza. Wouldn't exactly be the first.
On the other hand, the premise of hosting all of your data on your location of choice seems rather legit. The one thing I don't understand though is how it is going to be enforced in practice. Open source, data retention audits, yes, good, more of that please. But still, what's to stop another corp from forcing a user to provide certain data in exchange for using their services? From collecting it in the process? No bloody foggiest idea how turning everything into an RDF galore is going to fix that sort of mess, which is, seemingly, the main reason the project even exists in the first place.
I guess figuring out what they are trying to do is going to take a little more digging around the documentation. Aw hell.
TL;DR: Hard to figure the whole point of it at a first glance.
As a matter of habit, I'm inclined to feel good about it, but let's be honest it looks like another piece of turn-everything-into-RDF-semantic-web-tinfoil-kill-google-with-fire-now kind of bonanza. Wouldn't exactly be the first.
On the other hand, the premise of hosting all of your data on your location of choice seems rather legit. The one thing I don't understand though is how it is going to be enforced in practice. Open source, data retention audits, yes, good, more of that please. But still, what's to stop another corp from forcing a user to provide certain data in exchange for using their services? From collecting it in the process? No bloody foggiest idea how turning everything into an RDF galore is going to fix that sort of mess, which is, seemingly, the main reason the project even exists in the first place.
I guess figuring out what they are trying to do is going to take a little more digging around the documentation. Aw hell.
