# Volunteers needed for SolidLoV App

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/volunteers-needed-for-solidlov-app/3177>\
**Category:** Build a Solid App\
**Created:** [June 5, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/volunteers-needed-for-solidlov-app/3177 "2020-06-05T18:02:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/volunteers-needed-for-solidlov-app/3177/2 "2020-06-06T05:35:16Z")

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## Decentralization requirement

> [@anon36056958](#):
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> It would be great to have a Solid version of LOV but possibly with the ontologies themselves in a triple store accessible through a Solid pod.

I saw your question in [Storage size of free pods - #6 by anon36056958](http://forum.solidproject.org/t/storage-size-of-free-pods/1381/6) which stems from the collection of ontologies being large, right? Isn’t the idea of a centralized repository against the grain of Solid, where you want to instead have decentralization and every person contributes their own vocabularies and/or information on which vocabularies they use (and maybe cache that in their pods)?

Then there needs to be a unified way to search, find, browse this ‘web of ontologies’. This is very similar to how [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) works:

> PeerTube is not meant to become a huge platform that would centralize videos from all around the world.
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> Rather, it is **a network of inter-connected small videos hosters**.

PeerTube is federated using ActivityPub, but..

> The PeerTube software can, whenever necessary, use a peer-to-peer protocol (P2P) to broadcast viral videos, **lowering the load of their hosts.**
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> In this way, when you watch a video, your computer contributes to its broadcast. If a lot of people are watching the same video at the same time, their browser automatically send smalls pieces of the video to the other viewers. **The server resources are not over-exploited** : the stream is split, the network optimized.

The concept for videos is a bit different, but the idea behind it applies to sharing ontologies as well, I think.

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