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Can anyone explain what this actually is? I get that it's apparently an exciting new project, but what actually is it? A framework? A programming library? A
by mewse 9y ago
Can anyone explain what this actually is? I get that it's apparently an exciting new project, but what actually is it? A framework? A programming library? A data specification? I honestly can't tell.
They refer to "applications built using the Solid stack" at one point, which implies that it's an application platform. But elsewhere they talk about how it's "a proposed set of conventions and tools", which implies that it's an interchange data format.
What am I missing?
- blixt 9y agoI'm not sure either what exactly this is, but it reminds me of https://blockstack.org/ https://blockstack.org/ when it comes to each user owning their own data storage which the app runs on. Blockstack essentially lets you pick for example Dropbox as the datastore and an app would save files in a directory on your Dropbox instead of a server controlled by the app developer. Solid seems to talk about also keeping track of your social connections. So I suppose it also tracks people's profile data and public keys locally?
- icahnvalyou 9y agoI heard a funny story once about an interaction between Tim Berners-Lee and Ryan Shea. Woulda been about 4 years ago and I can see how it might have prompted TBL to take a crack at the same problem. Maybe you're right?
- tekmate 9y agohttps://github.com/solid/solid#about-solid https://github.com/solid/solid#about-solid this should answer all of these questions
- skywhopper 9y agoInteresting. Is that actually linked on the Solid project homepage? I'm not finding it.
- wwweston 9y ago> Can anyone explain what this actually is? I get that it's apparently an exciting new project, but what actually is it? A framework? A programming library? A data specification? I honestly can't tell. Apparently it's a drop-in replacement for Google Wave. ;)