As a beginner, what can I currently do with Solid, where could I start?

New here and somewhat lost. I’ve read about it and about having control of my data. But I don’t know what can I do currently. Where can I experiment with this, apps and such.

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Probably the first thing to do is to get a free pod on https://solidcommunity.net/ (that link will let you sign up for an account). Then you can explore your pod with the SolidOS browser frontend which lets you see both the text for documents and a view of how the RDF is interpreted. SolidOS also has several included apps you can experiment with - address book, task tracker, etc. SolidOS is fairly rudimentary but you can at lease create some data and see what it looks like. Next stop might be to try some apps. There is an app listing on this forum and a Work-in-Progress catalog of Solid resources that includes apps.

If you have an interest in a particular kind of app or area to explore, post back here and the community may have suggestions.

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Hi @echo, you should definetly check out my PracticalSolid video series

This should help you getting started and understand the basics of Solid. If not definetly let me know, and I am going to make another video on whatever is missing!

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If you’re into programming with JavaScript or TypeScript, you might want to check out https://rdfjs.dev/ :slight_smile:

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