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are people on here that have opinions about #Solid (the pod technology not the javascript framework / library)
why is it good / not good?
is it usable?
is it in use?
it doesn't seem to have the same popularity as i.e. #ActivityPub / the #Fediverse, even though the concept of solid pods seems to synergize quite well with the idea of a decentralized web, as far as i can tell
@mfru@mastodon.social I worked on Solid at Inrupt on the javascript sdk team, and the biggest problem solid has is learning curve, which is why I've been saying "AT Protocol is a bunch of the solid ideas but waaaay simpler learning curve" partly because you don't need to mess with json-ld
That and not even Inrupt appear to publicly do Solid anymore, they're all wallets now, apparently?
In your opinion, did you feel that the complexity of Solid was ONLY due to JSON-LD?
Or, were there other (non- JSON-LD) things that made it complex, too?
@mfru at the intersection of Solid and Activitypub there is @activitypods that is BTW pivoting to @nextgraph as we think the truly decentralized POD based on RDF is in fact NextGrsph. Of course we are biased, but maybe we are onto something
