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Tim Berners Lee's Inrupt

DraftDraft Sun 30 Sep 2018 1:50PMPublicSeen by 99

Hi everyone,

Somebody send it on a mailing list, seems pretty interesting. They use solid.

The article : https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

Web page of the project : https://www.inrupt.com/

Documentation : https://solid.inrupt.com/docs/

Josh Fairhead

Josh FairheadTue 16 Oct 2018 2:59PM

I know its not Inrupt, but if its a commons orientated FLOSS ecosystem your after take a look at Aragon. Theres a lot of interesting projects in incubation through their nest program

Bob Haugen

Bob HaugenTue 16 Oct 2018 7:47PM

If I understand https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566/ correctly, they are offering funds for projects that build on their stack, which is in turn built on Ethereum. Roughly accurate?

Josh Fairhead

Josh FairheadTue 16 Oct 2018 9:41PM

Yup, thats about right, those being funded being tools for a distributed governance ecosystem.

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Bob Haugen

Bob HaugenTue 16 Oct 2018 10:34PM

These are interesting alternative approaches to an Open App Ecosystem.
* Avalon and Holochain want you to use their stack: become part of their ecosystem, play by their rules. (Disclaimer: I just started working on a Holochain OAE project, so I am not complaining, it's just one way to do it, and it has the advantage that everything might work together better.)
* Scuttlebutt, where @luandrovieira has an OAE project in motion, is similar in that it has to play by the SSB protocol and a lot of the logic but could be developed at least in different languages, with different clients.
* Holochain also allows different languages and clients but might be more restrictive about the environmental rules. We'll see, not sure yet.
* SSB is more protocol than required logic, although it has some of that, too.
* DigLife and some others (sorry, don't have all the names ready-to-hand) assembles a bunch of independently-developed apps and puts a dashboard and bot on top of them, but as far as the apps themselves communicating with each other, I haven't seen it yet.
* Solid might be more decoupled, as in, the fewest rules, but I want to see an example of an actual network using it.
* IndieWeb is another contender that might be even more decoupled...

Any other approaches? What am I missing?

Josh Fairhead

Josh FairheadWed 17 Oct 2018 12:57PM

Thanks, ECSA also looks primed to do some interesting stuff too. Generalised, configurable consensus (graph) and capabilities based design paradigm on top of it.

Jon Richter

Jon RichterWed 17 Oct 2018 6:03PM

I like the word play with inrupt <> "disrupting", which was running around the start-up scene lately.

Also a little tutorial on how to use it is now available at https://solid.inrupt.com/docs/app-on-your-lunch-break

Previously they claimed they'll release a simple to use SDK in the near future, but that mention has been removed from https://solid.mit.edu