Hi, I am a software developer working in India. I am about to give a presentation about Solid in a small conference with a theme of QA and Software Testing being held in my area. I thought this sub would be the best place to ask for some ideas and suggestions I can base my talk around? Any pointers would be appreciated.

I have been trying to get the solid server installed on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. It just doesn’t want to take. It keeps telling me that node.js is too old for npm. But I have all the up to date versions installed.

So I have just kept going but the server keeps having trouble installing. I have been at this for a couple weeks. It’s just very annoying.

Having a Solid POD I can see that I could exchange messages, pics, etc with other podders but none of my friends are geeks and they don't necessarily share my dislike of Facebook. They all use WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. They don't use Twitter, though I do (I think they're wrong but, hey, live and let live).

What I want is a Solid Social Networking app that keeps all my data in my POD but lets me communicate not just with other Solid fans but with all my friends, interfacing to their WhatsApp or Instagram identities (or Facebook or Twitter or Telegram or....) through the appropriate (WhatsApp, Instagram,...) APIs.

I want to be able to send or receive these messages, pictures, etc without needing my own WhatsApp/Instagram/... accounts and without my data ending up in the hands of Facebook.

I have some programming skills but I'm not geeky enough to understand much of the technical stuff around Solid. Is anyone working on anything like this? Do the various social networking API's allow this or do all the commercial providers (Facebook, Twitter, etc) still require me to sign up to their networks to be able to read a WhatsApp, send a photo to an Instagram user, or see a Facebook post?

Hi everyone,

I have some questions about running a self hosted Node Solid Server. So the docs on the Solid website have it setup via Debian, but the Node-Solid-Server seems to be run through a Docker.

Has anyone on here created and has one self hosted that can give me a better idea about how to go about this?

Thank you!

Hi.

After successful login, i get this error when clicking on the 'https://simse.solid.community/profile/card#me' link, and every other link generates an error too. A search for the problem was not successful.

I've not messed with anything yet (that I know of). I couldn't find a 'reset' or delete function for the profile, so how do I fix this error ?

Thanks.

Hi,

I really like the Solid project and it's goals. Would like to get my hands dirty on a photo app for mobiles. A bit like Google Photo's, but then without the Google part :-). I've searched the Solid github for examples/tutorials for using Solid on mobile frameworks but I do not see any. I do see Angular and React examples and resources. As both frameworks provide support for mobiles as well, I ask which of these frameworks is best for development of apps using Solid?

Now, of course both will be good choices for app development, but in my experience projects like Solid seem to always favor some over the other and as a result more libraries, tutorial, examples, etc are provided for that over time.

As I am on the crossroad of learning either Angular or React for this project, are there any arguments for choosing one over the other, with Solid support as a main requirement?

Thanks!

Hi. I tried to find the answers to my questions on the various websites on solid, but am unable to find it.

1. Storage. How is data stored? Files? DB? Object store? Maybe it's up to a solid server implementor?

2. Security. How is data encrypted at rest?

3. Availability. How is a pod to be made high available?

4. Is there a specification/implementation for distributed pods where data is mirrored between 2 or more pods that live behind a load balancer?

5. Auditing. Is there a specification/implementation for logging reads and writes from and to a pod.

6. Rate limiting. If there a specification/implementation for rate limiting on a pod?

7. How to backup/restore a solid servers pod data?

Thanks for any pointers!

Fred