Yes, absolutely. I helped to make Solid. We created a pub/sub thing over websockets, but it lacked signatures. While waiting for that to be fixed I found nostr which works even better.
In 2018, Berber’s-Lee had a project called Inrupt, that according to this article, had the purpose of “to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it.” But that project seems to have gone nowhere, do you happen to know what happened. Without knowing much about it, it seems some ideas are adopted by #Nostr? https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web
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In see, pub/sub thing over websockets sounds like #nostr. Amazing. Also amazing that you worked with Tim Berners-Lee 🫡
I’m a big fan of the Internet as a human invention. Once wrote an article telling just that, with a paragraph about Berners-Lee. https://pedro-vicente.net