Comment on Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter
GadgeteerZA@fedia.io 8 months ago
@SorteKanin my biggest worry is that his Solid POD has been coming from about 2016 in design and was funded 2021 or so, and I remember it being announced in 2022 or so. In today's world, that is pretty slow-going. It seemed to always be imminent. I even registered a POD back in 2022... and then nothing still after two years. So many other decentralised protocols have been adopted since then.
Admittedly we do have an urgent need for one's own POD identity no matter where you are on social networks, but I still don't see how we're going to get ActivityPub, Nostr, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc to all adopt it.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah. It’s an interesting concept, but I can’t see why anyone would want to use it.
GadgeteerZA@fedia.io 7 months ago
@General_Effort it's about retaining a single identity for yourself, and one which you control and link to where you are using it vs a unique profile at every different social network.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As far as I understand, you’d store eg tracking data in the POD. That would allow apps/services to give you better recommendations or personalized ads. The only party with any interest in writing to the POD is the end-user, but their interest is tiny. Better recommendations, so what? Advertisers prefer to keep their data private to have an edge over the competition.