Creator of the Web works to liberate personal data

Recent discussions about Solid:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18104867

and earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16355311

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280764

This has been in the works for 15 years and it seems like OpenID bundled with personal storage. As far as I can tell, Tim Berners-Lee is the main feature.

I think Dat and SSB are the most promising technologies we have for data and identity respectively. I want to love Solid, but it already seems outdated.

I wish the team nothing but the best as we all work on fixing and enhancing the web.

Dat: https://datproject.org SSB: https://scuttlebutt.nz

If it's something you can download, double-click, and it instantly works, then it might have a future. Any additional step makes success less likely.