Solid seems like an idea that only makes sense if your key goal is allowing cloud providers to offer proprietary services that use your data, while still storin

Solid seems like an idea that only makes sense if your key goal is allowing cloud providers to offer proprietary services that use your data, while still storing it elsewhere. But I'd say most people fall either into "I don't mind proprietary services holding my data" or "I want to self-host the preferably open source application and my data". I don't see the benefit of separating the two at all, and I think the only reason this project keeps coming up and around is the name of the guy pushing it. "Solid is a mid-course correction for the Web by its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee" is very literally the only selling point I think Solid has. Sandstorm or Cloudron have a better model, self-host (or pay someone to host for you) all of your apps and data together, in an easy interface for adding new apps like an app store.