<story><title>Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications</title><url>https://solid.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>I think these &amp;quot;open web&amp;quot; movement people are mistaken about what made the web successful.&lt;p&gt;The web succeeded because it let people connect more easily by removing friction.&lt;p&gt;Of course the &amp;quot;openness&amp;quot; part was important in gaining initial adoption, but today &amp;quot;adoption&amp;quot; is not a problem anymore. Most of these open web movement people just want to make things open without any immediate, clear, and tangible benefit to end-users. Even if they did, these always come with caveats--inconvenience.&lt;p&gt;Introducing inconvenience for the sake of making things more open is going backwards, and that&amp;#x27;s why it never gets any traction.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying being open is stupid, I&amp;#x27;m just saying it&amp;#x27;s not gonna happen if all these guys think about is &amp;quot;how are we going to make the web more open?&amp;quot;, they will keep building the same shit that no mainstream user cares about.&lt;p&gt;If you want to make the web more open, build something that provides a unique unprecedented benefit, important enough that people will use it no matter how inconvenient it is, like Bitcoin, or Bittorrent.</text></comment>
<story><title>Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications</title><url>https://solid.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>I feel like the description of this is either so high-level that it doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense, or too close to the ground to really get an idea about what it is.&lt;p&gt;Is it an alternative to HTML? To http? Is it a set of guidelines for data handling? Is it a web-framework like Django or a framework like react?</text></comment>