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I still don’t get it. I truly believe that until they can show a simple use case that people will use, that this site/technology will continue to live in the d

by MR4D 7y ago

I still don’t get it. I truly believe that until they can show a simple use case that people will use, that this site/technology will continue to live in the darkness. Please, please put a simple use case on your website. Maybe something like how if I use pod that I can share pictures with friends and they can view them without setting up their own pod - maybe just an account somewhere, or, even better, show how I can have some pictures that are public to the world but others that only my friends can see. Until then, this is like reading a dictionary - not useful and not very exciting.

edtechdev 7y ago
I ran across blockstack recently and was wondering if it fit the bill. It seems like Solid minus the linked data stuff. The user keeps control of their own data just like with Solid. They have some initial apps listed here: https://app.co/blockstack https://app.co/blockstack In comparison, here's a list of some Solid apps: https://github.com/solid/solid-apps https://github.com/solid/solid-apps But blockstack also has a cryptotoken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420
davidy123 7y ago
You should join the gitter channels to get to the heart of the project. "They" want it to be a community effort, to build the libraries and apps and connections. There is a lot of energy focused on supporting the community effort. The top level is about community and standards (and an "enterprise" service that plays along, but that's fine as long as it's not exclusive, which by definition it won't be). And it's a slow project, so there are some unanswered questions, but many new solutions along the way. So the whole thing moves as a front, rather than one peak. Since it's so focused on standards and relevant use cases (shared preferences, calendars, activities, annotations, etc), if you spend some time there you'll start to see solutions developing that support and transcend what we do today. True interoperability at a very fine level that doesn't depend on one entity, doesn't violate privacy and trust. But it takes some strategy and participation. That's another reason I like it, being a person of the 90s internet (which has easily carried me to any project I care to participate in), before the startup hype, where it was about invention based on shared possibility rather than a mania to get rich no matter the effect, but now with more focus on security and experience.

by MR4D 7y ago

edtechdev 7y ago

I ran across blockstack recently and was wondering if it fit the bill. It seems like Solid minus the linked data stuff. The user keeps control of their own data just like with Solid. They have some initial apps listed here: https://app.co/blockstack https://app.co/blockstack In comparison, here's a list of some Solid apps: https://github.com/solid/solid-apps https://github.com/solid/solid-apps But blockstack also has a cryptotoken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420

davidy123 7y ago

You should join the gitter channels to get to the heart of the project. "They" want it to be a community effort, to build the libraries and apps and connections. There is a lot of energy focused on supporting the community effort. The top level is about community and standards (and an "enterprise" service that plays along, but that's fine as long as it's not exclusive, which by definition it won't be). And it's a slow project, so there are some unanswered questions, but many new solutions along the way. So the whole thing moves as a front, rather than one peak. Since it's so focused on standards and relevant use cases (shared preferences, calendars, activities, annotations, etc), if you spend some time there you'll start to see solutions developing that support and transcend what we do today. True interoperability at a very fine level that doesn't depend on one entity, doesn't violate privacy and trust. But it takes some strategy and participation. That's another reason I like it, being a person of the 90s internet (which has easily carried me to any project I care to participate in), before the startup hype, where it was about invention based on shared possibility rather than a mania to get rich no matter the effect, but now with more focus on security and experience.