Solid

 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 during a W3C Social Web Working Group meeting as captured in the meeting minutes.

Solid Applications
There's a growing list of applications at https://solidproject.org/apps with some promosing projects, like Plume for blogging.

Hype around initial announcement
Solid was announced with a vehement approach in it's early days, which attracted quite a bit of criticism, particularly because it seems to be hard to set it up.



Misreported by the press

 * : claims "2 years" when it's been 5+ years, grandiose claims without related successful real world examples, and evangelizing risks personal medical information in England