[pedro1976]

I would push it even further. All these isolated, unstandardized and closed silos are really horrible. I want that in some future we will own all of our networks, not just the data. So, your social graph private and professiinal, your knowledge graph (which could include music) and when you meet someone, that person could grant you access to his graphs. "Stand on the shoulders of giants" would then also be true for your close private family, where you would have access to e.g. your fathers knowledge.

[asab]

There is an effort under way, one of which is led by Tim Berners-Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

[mawise]

Everytime I read about solid I just can't see it working out. It's HARD for someone to host something themselves, and when you talk about decoupling the data from the interface that means any user needs to deal with two system when they used to deal with one. Ease-of-use is one of the most important things for broad adoption--that's everything is "signup and we take care of everything" instead of "run this code on your computer".