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I like the goals of Solid, but tech-wise I fear it's headed into the weeds. A detailed critique from a few days' deep dive into the tech stack: https://forum.so

• sfink 6y ago
  tl;dr: Solid is exposing a database of data with a filesystem API. This will not end well.
  • cxr 6y ago
    That's not exactly true. Solid is a refinement of HTTP, and HTTP is and always has been closer to "messages and ports" than files. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17897325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17897325> (Not a critique of whether your tldr is an accurate summary of the forum post or not, just that the criticism itself doesn't hold.) Having said that, moving to the imperfect abstraction of a dumb filesystem alone would be beneficial (better than what we're doing now, at least), even if that's all it ever amounted to, and we were stuck with that bad abstraction forever.