Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
by Sargos on Friday January 11, 2019 @03:07PM
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Solid looks to be trying to reimplement what platforms like Ethereum are already building. The same ethos is there and this is very well written but I wonder if the Solid project just missed that when doing their research. Hopefully all of their efforts don't go to waste and they can extend some of their work to the broader decentralized web community.
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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
by rubenverborgh on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:54PM
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No: blockchain technologies are about reaching decentralized agreements. Solid is about everyone being able to write their own things (so no agreement) without centralized parties.
Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
by cslarson on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:01PM
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The Ethereum project is about providing a complete decentralized web3 stack - not just a blockchain, though the database layer that provides is a critical part of it.
Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
by kjetilk on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:26PM
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Not really, it is pretty much the other way around. :-) We're basically building the simplest thing that could possibly work, they are rebuilding a lot of infrastructure that they have to use, but we can use where it makes sense. So, they are kinda trying to implement the Web, which is a much bigger task than adding access control and identity... :-) There's also been quite a lot of overlap between people working on Solid and working on Blockchains in the past, so we know it well. But we're not really in competition, we'd be fine coexisting.