@detroitmechworks Actually, there's already waaay too much money behind it for the likelihood of "successful," early intervention by the status quo. That being said, I'm sure "they" will try. (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc., do NOT like it when others attempt to piss on their fire hydrant. As the saying goes, these days: "If it's online and it's free, YOU are the product.")

(I've been commenting and writing about Berners-Lee's SOLID project for awhile. Inrupt is, essentially, Solid's "infrastructure." A family member of a close business acquaintaince is running SOLID's media work.)

And with very little attention, the Media will not hesitate to complete ignore and destroy an innovation if it threatens the bottom line.

I expect a nice fraud allegation, sexual misconduct allegation, or racism allegation before anybody hears about it. Earlier if it starts getting traction.

1948 wasn't that long ago.

@Lookout

...above their heads, nicely encrypted, that follows them around They can share parts at times if they wish, and then take them back. They can even have a range of identities they use for different purposes. Any tracking that takes place within their cloud they select for their own convenience and enjoyment, until they delete it. Essentually, people will actualize themselves over time as they learn, gain experience, and hone their aspirations. It will not be quite so easy to smear them, shame them, and ruin their careers and lives by exposing their novel experimentation with life, love, and the world. Their cheats or stumbles or failures or embarrassments live in their encypted cloud. They own the rights to their persecutions or prosecutions, their victories or victimizations that occured along the way to becoming who they fully are.

And then, there's our metadata. Corprations seek to acquire, commoditize, and exploit the detailed metadata of each human life. But that is theft. The individual is the legal owner of the details of his daily life. It is vauable and it is not to be stripped from him like so much is in the predatory system we inhabit. It reminds me of slavery.

Now that's just a conceptual guess. I like to think there are vast arrays of meshing and distributed security, that Kim Dotcom spoke of. That comes close to lifting the Internet off the physical backbone it occupies, which is what makes it vulnerable to fascist-state control, censorship, propaganda, psyops, and false narratives that are degrading the medium, the message, and our minds — and holding us hostage.

Our leaders have shown they are not fit to handle any of this. And they do not have the capacity to learn.

But I'm not quite sure how it works. Is the idea people unplug from facebook and twitter to use inrupt? Or would people access their FB through their inrupt pod?

After browsing the site, am I correct in thinking it is like an operating system?

Thanks for the heads up. I look forward to seeing where it leads.

@dkmich @dkmich

For years it has bothered me that the internet has been "commoditized", as microsloth put it in the infamous Halloween memos when they realized they were missing a giant profit opportunity. It's bothered me that this network, designed and implemented on the public dollar, has been hijacked by corporations who feel entitled to own our lives and communications. Just a few megacorps own most of the traffic and the content now, and turned it into a privatized "free" market tug of war, where we're the rope. Censorship is just an artifact of ownership.

Berners-Lee must be trying to make up for inventing the .com domain. He did that, didn't he?

I haven't read the inrupt page yet, but I've been dying to see an open-source, open-licensed version of online communications, more like the now-antique bulletin boards than Zuckbook. Of course, the Power will still hold the kill switch and monitor and record all traffic, but it would be great to get the corps off our backs.

I'm sick of corps making us adopt infantile babble-words like google and twitter.

Yep, cue the accusations and slander (they're proactive; now Bernie's on the sex carpet), but subverting zuckbook and tooter can only be good.

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the censorship of the internet. The government using private industry to kill free speech in American is particularly odious. Political parties cannot be reformed. They must be destroyed.

@mimi @mimi

like a bulletin board than the zuckbook or tooter "social media" app, but since I've never belonged to either of the latter I can't really say. Discussion more than "announcing".
But I imagine JtC won't have a problem with it, right fella? Apples and durians, I think.

I'll definitely be checking it out.

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the new platform will allow users to have complete control over their information ‘pods’ (an acronym for “personal online data store”) — it is only they who will decide whether outside apps and sites will be granted access to it, and to what extent.

No more admins who tell me not to redact, not to delete my own words. I think I yelled once on TOP that I want my comments back, because they are mine and not yours. I guess they thought

I am mentally ga-ga to say something like it. Now if Berner-Lee offers that, I am all in. Even if I don't understand what it really means what his platform is offering.

Hell yeah. JtC you will not love it, right? And people ask if they can use facebook and twitter through that operating system/platform/infrastructure? Heck, be happy if you don't have to go through those sites. I hope to never have to use paypal by default anymore.

Can't even boycott facebook and twitter? To hell with that kind of shizophrenia. Either you boycott or you don't.

Ah ranting is sometimes such a good feeling.
Peace nevertheless. Nothing for Ungood. I trust Berner-Lee to do the right thing. It's about time.