I am inclined to be skeptical of semweb technologies as well, and certainly I think there are many in the Solid community that look at it as a sort-of second ch

I am inclined to be skeptical of semweb technologies as well, and certainly I think there are many in the Solid community that look at it as a sort-of second chance for it. However, I do think many of the reasons I think it failed the first time around might not apply in the case of Solid, where it's used for modeling just personal data stored in a place under the user's control - which comes with its own unique challenges for which it might actually be a good match. I'm on a phone with bad WiFi now, but happy to dive into that more later if anyone's interested. (Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)