Solid

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Solid is a decentralized file system and protocol designed to power decentralized social applications and linked data. It primarily leverages existing technologies - like many existing HTTP verbs - to handle a variety of identity, federation, and storage problems with the current web.

Solid was named by Sandro Hawke during a W3C Social Web Working Group meeting as captured in the meeting minutes.

See Also

• Solid Spec
• Solid Presentations
• https://solid.inrupt.com/
• https://twitter.com/davidascher/status/1046446301733257217
  • "Trying the onboarding UX for TBL's Solid. Ouch. Way too early for this kind of press IMO." @davidascher September 30, 2018
• https://twitter.com/hvdsomp/status/1046253570989862912
  • "I couldn’t agree more with @danbri on this. I spent a very significant amount of time during my sabbatical year trying to get Solid running. The auth stuff was basically impossible. Even when helped by the in-crowd geeks. I too want to believe, but ..." @hvdsomp September 30, 2018
• https://twitter.com/danbri/status/1046539540041613312
  • "I created an account yesterday and failed to find anything I could do once logged in, never mind ACLing that nothing wrt the 99%+ of people I know who hadn't made an account on same Pod, or elsewhere in Solid universe. I'm glad it is still evolving but the hype is a risk..." @danbri September 30, 2018
• Not to be confused with SOLID, the object-oriented design principles