Discussion · Bonfire

Johannes Ernst @j12t@j12t.social · 2 months ago

Just read the transcript of @mike 's #DotSocial podcast with @jay.bsky.team .

They cover a lot of interesting use cases -- many of them dear to my heart since (embarrassingly) approx 2004:

A single identity for me on the web. Which I control and can self-host or move to different hosts. From where I can engage the world and the world can engage with me. No walled gardens. Lots of new use cases.

It's a bit harder than they make it out to be. But I obviously agree with the vision.

Luca Sironi @luca@sironi.tk · 2 months ago

@j12t @mike @jay.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy

where do i get the transcript, please ?

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Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

@j12t @mike@jay.bsky.team What do you think of Solid by @timbl ? Seems like that could solve the single identity issue.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t@j12t.social · 2 months ago

@ricmac Solid has its own problems, irrespective of identity -- I don't know many developers who'd say "if I just had a standard way of doing HTTP requests to and from RDF files my life would be so much better."

But on a high level, all of these efforts are adressing different parts of what should be the same elephant. The trouble is nobody so far has assembled the elephant in a viable way.