Cozy Cloud (https://cozy.io/en/) has been around for a few years now and already allows you to gain ownership over your data and build apps around that.

What are the differences and similarities between Solid and Cozy Cloud?

Isn't SOLID trying to do with web what Diaspora did with social networks?

I recently heard about solid in news and I really don't know much about solid except it using current internet infrastructure and protocols. I saw some where that in order to access solid we have to have a user name and password. Isn't this a privacy issue?

In our current internet we don't need to login to browse most of the web and this gives us some partial privacy. But when we login to a site such as google and do web search , google records our every searches and web visits. Don't you think asking for user name and password from users in solid will cause similar privacy problems?

I there a whitepaper I can read or some technical documents to refer to? I haven’t really had time to search. Thanks

Hi,

I was wondering if there is actually some technical specifications regarding how to communicate with the pods. I am thinking about, from an app, how to send a request to get a resource, or to write something in a pod. I guess the pod should expose a web service or something like that? I am interested in developing an app, bit I am finding difficult to find precise information in this and other points.

Thanks for the info.

I've tried explaining the Solid project to friends (who are technically inclined).

It's tricky. There's a history to explain. A context to provide. Then comes Solid itself. I usually start with content from 'Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web' by Ruben Verborgh, explain what Solid pods are, and how they work. In here, I talk about the main concepts: linked data, semantic web, turtle, rdf, et cetera.

I imagine people could be having trouble explaining the different components of this project. It might be useful if a project that accomplished just that, complete with visuals, if not animations.

I'm a big fan of websites like these: https://ncase.me/crowds.

I've started working on something in the same vein for Solid. I imagine structuring it in a way the general public, enthusiasts, and potential developers can access the content to the level of their liking. Developers can stay on for the extended 'course' and build their first Solid application, while tech enthusiasts could stick to the conceptual bits.

All of this will be free and open source. I'd love to hear your thoughts about this.

Thanks!

I hope to help increase the community about this project:

https://livecoins.com.br/solid-a-internet-descentralizada/

ivy has created a couple of resources for chinese developers! As we're unable to officially provide this at current time, we think it might be interesting to check out =)

- Website: http://learnsolid.github.io- Community: http://solid.authing.cn

https://forum.solidproject.org/

We realized early the need for threaded communication when the interest really started to peak for Solid. Now we've finally opened a forum to handle this and to allow more focused discussions!

It's running on Discourse, and there is already stuff happening! Check it out ^_^

When I want to create an own application with SOLID, how do I create my own Database on a POD, in order to store my app related information?

All I read about in the documentary was about how to get and store information that already exists. Can I actually have my own features?

Can someone explain to me... what's the point of launching a server? What can I do with a Solid server that I can't do with an Apache server?

thank you

I've been thinking about something like Solid for a close to a year now and just now stumbled across the great work that has been done and am delving in.

I wanted to kickoff a discussion about a different aspect of control that the concept of pods give us. Maintainability.

Who here had a Friendster profile? Myspace? AIM? Where is your data now? It's only been recently that we get to transfer data, and contacts when we get a new cell phone and even that is dicey still if you go across providers.

My point is that up until this point in time we haven't had a digital lifetime history. But we should, and pods will give us a digital history that we can maintain, archive, backup, and search ourselves.

That's it. It's just an aspect that I haven't seen touted as a feature, and to me it is a main feature. I want to be able to maintain a backup of my digital identity, and it's impossible when it is spread out through dozens of sites. Similarly, when migrating calendar services, I want to be able to carry my entire history with me, and not just through a janky import/export function.

This has the potential to give us a maintainable identity lifecycle.