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Sounds a bit like IPFS. Which makes me wonder what TBL thinks of it. Has he said anything on the topic?

I mean, IPFS is designed to replace http, which is TBL's baby, but lately he is really into web decentralization, and IPFS is farther along on that than any other technology, from what I understand. Maybe http was a kluge and he would be happy to have it replaced. Maybe Solid could run on top of IPFS, or is that not possible.

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Hmm ipfs has many issues for solving that problem, and the whole filecoin nonsense adds an additional layer of problems.

But ipfs is charging forward. Very often the technology that gets adopted is not perfect, but succeeded because it attracted more support than any other one.

And web decentralization is not going to have any real impact unless there is a standard set of technologies that can be the basis for all the main use-cases, and that the average, computer-illiterate user can adopt by clicking a link or two, or better yet comes built into their browser. IPFS is much further along here than anyone else, so it seems like the Solid people should be looking at integrating with it, if that is technologically possible.

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