Susan Potter

I want one source of truth for all my personal data that works with TBD decentralized identities (DIDs) and Solid's pods supporting the following apps/protocols:
- ActivityPub for content syndication
- OpenEHR for health data
- open fitness tracking data

And allow for secure fine grained privacy controls with a usable interface on mobile, APIs and Web.

Is this really asking too much? ;)

Jul 7, 2023 at 5:03pmTusky
Show threadSusan PotterJul 8, 2023
I was looking at my Twitter history and found me talking about Solid and Inrupt (and funnily Mastodon) in 2018 here:
https://twitter.com/SusanPotter/status/1046392537584472065?s=20
susanpotter.net/social/mastodon on Twitter

“Relatedly, I have been underwhelmed by ActivityStreams and its ecosystem (including Mastodon). Yesterday's press releases about TBL's Inrupt and Solid efforts are welcomed, but I know so little yet. Anyone else poked around?”

Twitter
Show threadSusan PotterJul 8, 2023
I am also sad that TBD is basically reinventing Solid ideas with DWN, DWA, etc instead of building on top of Solid to make a decentralized web more likely instead of trying to *dominate* something.
Show threadRobert PickeringJul 7, 2023
@SusanPotter
Yes.
Show threadGrzegorzJul 7, 2023
@SusanPotter
Show threadBoyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jul 7, 2023

@SusanPotter I'd be glad just to have a single identity that covers all of my public ActivityPub activity. I don't want my Kbin/Lemmy profile to be separate from my Mastodon profile.

I'm less interested in shared storage for public AND private data, though I can see advantages and I already use third party storage for private/secret data.

Show threadSusan PotterJul 7, 2023
@BoydStephenSmithJr ultimately data silos make it hard to manage for most users which is why I think Solid is the better approach personally.
Show threadSusan PotterJul 7, 2023
@BoydStephenSmithJr ... For most users.
Show threadFrancis 🏴‍☠️ GulottaJul 7, 2023
@SusanPotter from society no, from capitalism yes
Show threadGuido Marucci BlasJul 8, 2023
@SusanPotter we are no doing exactly that (yet) that definitely exploring in a similar direction at cedalio.com. Love to hear your thoughts
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Jul 8, 2023

@SusanPotter tbh, having worked at Inrupt, I was increasingly seeing companies see solid pods as a GDPR get out of jail free card: it's not our data, we don't need to protect/respect it, it's the users data, they manage it

I think Solid could be good, but it can't just be highly disparate "maybe data" without enforcement of data schemas on write, tools for developers to publish their data schemas & vocabs, and storage-local compute so you don't need to trust that your data will remain safe