I'm sure I could dig into the details, but the Solid protocol seems to have similar high-level objects to AT Protocol, but a quick search doesn't reveal many sources that refer to both - are these communities ignoring each other, competing with each other, or just too new to find common ground?
ATProto team is familiar with SOLID, and we have a lot of respect for the people involved, but it didn't seem like it captured the right model for us. In particular, we felt it was important to debind identity from hosting, focus on high-scale aggregators (which are also debound from hosts), and use a data model which is more approachable to devs than RDF (json + lexicon).
TLDR: I like ATProtocol, but there are a couple of things that don't make it as decentralized/independent as I'd like. Also, the fact that everything is public in ATProtocol makes it very different from Solid. Solid is all about data ownership, and many of the use-cases require privacy. Until ATProtocol has an answer for private data, I don't think it's even worth considering for most use-cases that Solid wants to tackle.
I'm sure I could dig into the details, but the Solid protocol seems to have similar high-level objects to AT Protocol, but a quick search doesn't reveal many sources that refer to both - are these communities ignoring each other, competing with each other, or just too new to find common ground?
ATProto team is familiar with SOLID, and we have a lot of respect for the people involved, but it didn't seem like it captured the right model for us. In particular, we felt it was important to debind identity from hosting, focus on high-scale aggregators (which are also debound from hosts), and use a data model which is more approachable to devs than RDF (json + lexicon).
I previously tried to engage with you regarding developer experience, since I don't think RDF is as bad as people say. See https://bsky.app/profile/noeldemartin.com/post/3l7mkmo2pc327
Hi there, I'm one of the main community members working on Solid (TimBL mentions my apps in the article).
I can't speak for the whole community, but I recently wrote some of my thoughts on ATProtocol: https://bsky.app/profile/noeldemartin.com/post/3l7mj5glqey25
TLDR: I like ATProtocol, but there are a couple of things that don't make it as decentralized/independent as I'd like. Also, the fact that everything is public in ATProtocol makes it very different from Solid. Solid is all about data ownership, and many of the use-cases require privacy. Until ATProtocol has an answer for private data, I don't think it's even worth considering for most use-cases that Solid wants to tackle.
December
>fractal blend of community
Fractals magic!