Nostr Web Client

Why would any big tech companies implement this? Just the idea that it would level the playing field makes it unattractive to them.

And if you don't run your own pod, you're still giving someone access to, not just some, but all of your data. They're likely to have similar provacy policies to everyone else which allows them to share it with partners and monitize it.

I see some advantages to Solid, but if the economics of having customers pay for services and keeping their data private in return were on par with using and monetizing your data, Google, Facebook, and their friends would have switched to it years ago. Instead what we see are a handful of companies like Proton taking this approach,and they are only used by people who REALLY privacy.

I appreciate that Solid exists, but it doesn't seem like it will have a significant impact on silicon valley nor the average person.

Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

It's a web operating system that is very powerful. It has standardized access control that allows users to share their stuff privately, in a group or publically. So for example, if nostr took that part, you could have a public square (twitter0, a group chat (telegram, facebook), or a private messenger (signal, matrix, whatsapp). There's lots of other things that can be done with a Turing complete operating system, such as payments, and smart contracts. Solid is a bit complex, and got more complex over time, so I dont think silicon valley would take it, although bluesky did look at it, they didnt really understand it. Solid is also the only project to have fully standardized decentralized identity on the web, which is under utiliized. It's a good system but not heavily used. I made a simpler version trying to take the best bits called solid lite, but it never really caught on.

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vinney...axkl 1y ago

In what sense is Solid an "operating system"?