Hi, I started on an video series about the practical useage of Solid:
I talked a lot about Solid’s vision and the ideas behind it, and most people really like all the concepts, but struggle to use it in practice (for many good reasons)
I am showing what Solid can actually do today and in practice and share my experience using it as an early adopter and developer for many years now.
I publish fediverse-first, you can follow with any Mastodon account or ActivityPod.
If for any reason you prefer to watch on YouTube, I publish there with a week’s delay as well:
Let me know if there is any topic in particular I should cover! I am also interested in how you use Solid in practice!
My own thoughts as someone who knew @timbl from Plessey days until 2000 when he offered useful advice is that my control of my data in my everyday activity is best served by being able to embed it using Solid in the everyday Apps I use. The Apps only need a link to the Solid held data, but as the owner I can control the subsequent use.
For instance (very relevant to email leaks of sensitive material) sensitive email content when created in Solid would include the list of persons authorised to access it. The email body would only contain a link to some content which was to be held and controlled by Solid. On receipt the link would redirect the email App to the content which would then require the person’s access to be checked. It might even have changed since the email was sent or even the content updated. One then has to have mechanisms which allow the Solid server to control the rendering at the client end of the bit of the screen (or paper if allowed) associated with the Solid content without the email App being able to extract any of it if not allowed by the access controls set for the person by the owner.
I am fully aware that such interactions when fully analysed are very complex (I might even want to created the data with Word ) and most probably not possible as things stand now. I just happen to believe that for Solid to be truly wonderful it needs to fit into everyday use of computers fairly seamlessly.
I met @Timbl at a Christ Church fund raising event last September and hoped we could discuss ideas as we used to do.