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From the article: The Open Data Institute that I co- founded in London has taken on the challenge of international co- ordination for a new standard that gives users control over their own data. It is called Solid (for social linked data) and the technical details are controlled by W3C, the web standards consortium. Solid seeks to decentralise the web. The platform can be used to build new applications that request access to user data. This data is stored in such a way that users have complete control over it.
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While I agree this is a pretty interesting idea in concept and theory, the big hurdle is going to be convincing people to leave the legacy social media platforms for new ones built under this framework, even if the intent is benevolent. The average person couldn’t care less about data privacy, and I can guarantee Meta/Xitter/etc will a) not abide by these standards in any way, and b) will actively thwart and do everything in their power to sabotage this. Unfortunately, regulatory action Is likely the only way to begin this change, which sure as hell isn’t happening under the current US administration, and without pressure at home, these companies won’t do a damn thing about it.
I would say this is a little too pessimistic. Legislation in the EU and California have both forced tech companies hands, it’s why we can download all our data and delete all our data (supposedly, doubtful in reality) on the large tech platforms. The issue I see is getting legislation that attaches itself to a standard controlled by the W3C. You are right that it won’t be something done by the US federal government though.
I have a better idea.
Let’s set fire to the gardens and salt the ground so nothing will grow again in that soil.
This is an interesting article, but I can only think of how current tech corporations would be absolutely drooling over the AI trained on financial transactions named Charlie—and very little would likely prevent them from getting their hands on it in the long term.
But, as always, I hope I’m just being paranoid. Best of luck to old TimBL—he’s revolutionized the world once; why not again?
We really need solid integrated with activity pub applications. There is activity pods but I haven’t seen any actual platform integrate it properly.
