I just watched a very insightful conversation about Facebook, SocialMedia challenges, and the Solid Project.
Key Video Segment: https://youtu.be/WGchhsKhG-A?t=861 .
Comment:
Solid is all about providing a platform that simplifies the development of HTTP-based Read-Write Applications & Services where the Privacy of end-users isn’t compromised, implicitly.
How is that achieved?
First off, it has nothing to do with compute resources. It has everything to do with structured data representation combined with loosely-coupling of the following:
- Identity (via a WebID)
- Identification (via a #WebIDProfile doc)
- Authentication (various protocols e.g., TLS or OpenID Connect)
- Authorization (WebACLs)
- Storage (various LDP and WebDAV supporting storage providers or proprietary alternatives from Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Rackspace, AWS S3 etc… ).
A third party cannot offer privacy to an individual. That is fundamentally contradictory. A Blockchain doesn’t address the aforementioned issue either.
The same ingenuity that underlies the Web is what developers and architects need to pay a little more attention re its magical data interaction capabilities.
This issue is about Application Architecture.
This is what Solid Addresses and simplifies for Web Developers.