Tim Berners-Lee’s new internet
Solid is an inherently bad idea. It undermines its own data sovereignty goals by encouraging a design where you grant access to your data to outside servers instead of requiring your data be processed on trustworthy servers. The only reason it would make sense compared to self-hosting or decentralized hosting of applications, is if you are primarily concerned with allowing proprietary apps to do things to your data without your ability to inspect or monitor them.<p>Just because a guy comes up with a good thing once doesn&#x27;t mean his next thing needs to be covered ad nauseum on his personal brand name alone.