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CERN-Solid
Discussion on the 'Decentralized Web & Storage' tracker at the CS3
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Description
Participants:
Yvo Brevoort
Michiel de Jong
Maria Dimou
Purpose:
The 24-28 January 2022 CS3 conference programme committee accepted Maria's proposal for this tracker:
Citizen and open source initiatives to give the web and cloud back to people.
This session invites for a discussion about the "obscure fate of data in Cloud storage" and technical solutions that may help to solve this problem.
How do Solid (SOcial LInked Data) - few so far - applications handle users' personal data stores and how they compare to successful open source social networks like Mastodon or Diaspora.
And most importantly, how to technically address the choice of storage by the user, alias content owner, other than relying on trust.
which is now visible in the programme .
Yvo submitted this Abstract:
Solid is quickly shaping into a solution for bringing data ownership back into the hands of the user. And yet, despite all the available storage options that are already provided, moving that data from one solution to another is not a solved problem.
The Solid project provides specifications for a different kind of web. By allowing people to store their own data in decentralized data stores (pods), it puts users back in control of which applications or people can access their data. Having a means to migrate data from one pod to another amplifies that control.
In this talk, we will touch on these subjects:
- what is Solid and why it is important
- how Solid is different compared to projects like Mastodon and Diaspora
- which storage solutions the current Solid server implementations provide and related challenges.
- what does a Solid Pod migrator solve.
More speakers that represent other approaches to fediverse style storage may join. See material attached to this event for details.
The question, as Michiel put it, this tracker should address is: "Solid and ScienceMesh both promise a web of storage. In 10 years from now, will the two live side-by-side? Will federated applications like Mastodon eventually move onto ScienceMesh and/or onto Solid?"
Please consult CERN-Solid activity index http://solid.cern.ch and contact Maria Dimou for further information on the CERN-Solid collaboration.
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