Readit Newserlend_sh commented on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come blog.muni.town/personal-d... · Posted by u/erlend_sh
Who has an incentive to provide a Solid server? Not big social media companies, who want the personal information that Solid attempts to withhold. I don't think anyone is prepared to offer a convenient, high quality Solid-based social media experience to everyone for free, because that costs a lot of money. And if you know anything about human nature, it will have to be convenient and completely free in order to have a chance of capturing any mindshare outside of weird tech nerd circles.
> the platforms should be asking us what kinds of data they may copy from our servers, and only with strictly temporary allowances.
Until practical homomorphic encryption arrives, I don't see how this temporariness can be enforced. If we rely on promises or regulation instead of the technical ability to enforce this, how is that any better than today's social media companies promising not to do anything bad with the data they have on us?
See this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480884
Aka: I agree it can’t be dine with technology; it has to be done with regulation, and the EU example already models a lot of it.
erlend_sh commented on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come blog.muni.town/personal-d... · Posted by u/erlend_sh
> Rather than being in countless separate places on the internet in the hands of whomever it had been resold to, your data is in one place, controlled by you.
I don't see how this follows. The moment you create/share data with a site, what's to prevent them from reselling it?
The only thing this seems to attempt to solve is portability/interop (and moving control of and responsibility for blocking/moderation/spam to users rather than sites).
I don't see how it helps at all with privacy or you "controlling" who gets your data. If you give it to site A but not data collector B, what's preventing A from selling it to B? As far as I can tell, the situation will remain identical to how it is today.
Your data will never be in one place unless you never share it. The moment you use it with other sites or services, it is stored there too, out of your control.
> The moment you create/share data with a site, what's to prevent them from reselling it?
If I can clearly assert origin and personal ownership of my data, I can forbid further reselling of it.
EU legislation shows that we can actually have the right to demand that a company forgets about us. Asserting such rights become easier the more accurately we define what data is ours.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
The app uses Ionic’s Capacitor, which to my rudimentary understanding is the webview-based upgrade of Cordova. I’ve had far fewer issues with this app than the likes of Bluesky (react native) and Discord (I think also react native but not sure).
The webview approach seems to be the only way for a one-person team to feasible provide a cross-platform app with an app-store presence. Another promising alternative to Capacitor is Tauri Mobile which does essentially the same thing, but mobile doesn’t seem to be a high priority for them.