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by notjoemama
1319 days ago
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I just spent some time reading about it and visiting the same links while finding some of the same problems. It sounds interesting but I can't figure out what it "should" be used for. I can imagine this replacing existing data stores but it looks like an over complication to me, initially. If I imagine Facebook backed by Solid pods, well if any social media site is web based, can't they just scrape my data and send it to their server if I plug my pod into their system and allow access? Because they can do that for anyone else that signs up, wouldn't it just be a veneer over me "controlling access to my data"? The only benefit I can see is having a unified consistent data structure for combining information from different sources, an HTML standard for data. Ah, I've got it. This is what I was searching for to say. After reading their site I can't figure out what problem these solid pod solves and I also don't know how it solves it. It looks like neat tech that I would want to play with but that's as far as I can get after about 20 minutes of being introduced to it. |
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The answer I usually give to this is that Solid's goal is to be the enabling technology that allows good actors to give you control over their data. Of course Facebook can funnel your data elsewhere if it were to be built on Solid, but it's even easier for them to just not build on Solid and just harvest your data that way. Technology is not a solution by itself, but with the technology available, customer demand or legislation potentially has a viable path towards giving you a way to control your data.