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It's only an unreasonable amount of work if you assume that the user is managing a separate storage backend for each library. If you take the Tim Berners-Lee a

It's only an unreasonable amount of work if you assume that the user is managing a separate storage backend for each library. If you take the Tim Berners-Lee approach (re: https://solidproject.org/ https://solidproject.org/) then each user is only managing one storage backend: the one that stores their data. The marginal cost of hooking in one more library to the existing backend is low. We just have to get a little more fed up with all of these services and then the initial cost of setting it up in the first place will be worth it. Any day now...

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closeparen 3y ago
I think most interesting web services are providing structured access to the same data for multiple people. A private, individual data silo wouldn't get the job done unless combined with some kind of message-passing. A silo to which users can invite peers is interesting, but it's an important characteristic of many web services that the specific read and write transactions allowed are application-defined... you don't actually want to give your collaborators general read or write access at the storage level. For example, it's important that I can add this comment, and I can't delete your comment, but the moderators can. The "storage" software would have to know something about the business logic of a web forum to make that happen.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
  I think we just need smarter browsers which can be configured to know who we trust in which dimension. If I want to leave a comment on an article and then delete it, I can publish the comment in my pod, and I can also publish the deletion. If you've got your browser in a mode where it's interested in my comments, it can pull in the data from my pod and render it in context with the article--whether or not the article's author cared to provide a comments section. If you drop the idea that anyone is authoritative about how it all comes together on the viewer's screen, you can also dispense with the headaches of being that authority (e.g. services).

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closeparen 3y ago

I think most interesting web services are providing structured access to the same data for multiple people. A private, individual data silo wouldn't get the job done unless combined with some kind of message-passing. A silo to which users can invite peers is interesting, but it's an important characteristic of many web services that the specific read and write transactions allowed are application-defined... you don't actually want to give your collaborators general read or write access at the storage level. For example, it's important that I can add this comment, and I can't delete your comment, but the moderators can. The "storage" software would have to know something about the business logic of a web forum to make that happen.

__MatrixMan__ 3y ago
I think we just need smarter browsers which can be configured to know who we trust in which dimension. If I want to leave a comment on an article and then delete it, I can publish the comment in my pod, and I can also publish the deletion. If you've got your browser in a mode where it's interested in my comments, it can pull in the data from my pod and render it in context with the article--whether or not the article's author cared to provide a comments section. If you drop the idea that anyone is authoritative about how it all comes together on the viewer's screen, you can also dispense with the headaches of being that authority (e.g. services).