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by rhythnic 2303 days ago
I was looking into Solid for a bit, but stopped as my concerns grew, must of which are expressed in other comments.

Recently I've been enamored with the Dat Protocol and the Beaker Browser. I like that it's a peer to peer protocol that uses local data storage. In addition, it makes it almost effortless to publish and scale a web application or site. It doesn't have Solid's strength in access control, but that's not to say that Dat's access control won't evolve. At this time, Dat's access control is very simple, basically share by link.

In addition, I would like to Linux handsets like Pinephone become better and more widely used.

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I shared a little of your scepticism on Solid when I heard tali’s on it at the Distributed Web Conference about three years ago, but I wish the success.

Thanks for mentioning the Beaker Browser. I enjoyed playing with it in the past, and I will check it out again.