Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work

Wishing that the landing page had a clearer explanation of how Solid provides a means for the owner of the data to control who can access their data, people and applications, as well as what the process of moving ones data from a given store to another. This project looks like it has huge potential, I just want to be able to understand at a glance what privacy controls are in place without reading the source code before committing my…

I think these "open web" movement people are mistaken about what made the web successful. The web succeeded because it let people connect more easily by removing friction. Of course the "openness" part was important in gaining initial adoption, but today "adoption" is not a problem anymore. Most of these open web movement people just want to make things open without any immediate, clear, and tangible benefit to end-users. Even if they did, these always come with caveats--inconvenience. Introducing inconvenience…

SOLID is a well intending team, good people. I'm a little concerned about their security model though: As of a very recent conversation, they seem to be ok with password being known by POD providers, which would make your data owned by the POD, not you. I was trying to encourage them to use E2EE with our security tool that several other big dApps in the industry have adopted: (d.tube, notabug.io, Internet Archive, etc.) https://gun.eco/docs/SEA The only person who seemed…