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Well crap, he beat me to the punch. I was going to write an article on data ownership and how we should be able to maintain our own data and only let networks c
by monksy 9y ago
Well crap, he beat me to the punch. I was going to write an article on data ownership and how we should be able to maintain our own data and only let networks curate and syndicate.
- oblib 9y agoHey, great minds think alike. It's truly a compliment and kind of nice to have TBL on your side!
- monksy 9y agoMy idea was that you should manage your own data, and have them tagged with the rights to broadcast or syndicate. The gist of it would be: If I write something as a tweet, wordpress would be the first to pick it up and possibly manage it. WP would be more of a CMS for your data. Write a tweet, it can be shown on your blog, and possibly to twitter and/or facebook. This would work for other content types. The value of twitter and fb is the network affect and curration.
- thundergolfer 9y agoI've recently become niggled by a very similar idea of a personal data store with a layer for managing rights of broadcast and syndication. A simple example is that I would want any food delivery app, or web-connected restaurant to know my dietary data instantly, but not really much else. Any new-media site I connect to I want to instantly know what kind of content I find boring or distracting, but not really anything else.
- dustingetz 9y agothere are thousands of such articles over last 20 years but nobody ever seems to ship anything useful, even solid has been on hacker news many times
- monksy 9y agoThis is where I think that he RDF/Semantic web part went wrong. That and there were other networks that tried to lock down everything.
- emilfihlman 9y agoYou think any app writer would allow you to do that? Just take yourself away from the platform like that? Lol. Bigger and more influential apps will always roll you into their corner. It's what every single vendor would do. It's what you would do.
- fron 9y agoYeah I was thinking the same thing. This whole concept is a tin-foil pipe dream. It will never see mainstream adoption because data can be really profitable. What business would choose to eliminate a revenue stream for no reason like this? Plus, as a user, I don't like analytic data being collected. As a software provider, analytics drive nearly every decision. I like the spirit of what Solid is trying to do, but as long as targeted advertising works better than randomizing every ad you see (it always will), there's zero reason for any profit-seeking entity to choose it.
- pmlnr 9y agohttps://indieweb.org https://indieweb.org is more or less about this. May I suggest that instead of writing about it, implement something that's actually usable for others as well? There had been enough writing, but very little actual solution.