are people on here that have opinions about #Solid (the pod technology not the javascript framework / library)
why is it good / not good?
is it usable?
is it in use?
it doesn't seem to have the same popularity as i.e. #ActivityPub / the #Fediverse, even though the concept of solid pods seems to synergize quite well with the idea of a decentralized web, as far as i can tell
There were a few other things (conflicting standards such as ACP vs WAC), but the JSON-LD was repeatedly the thing that developers found hard to wrap their head around. "How do I create a schema?" is a pretty normal question for an application developer, when you're used to working with traditional web app stacks. "Oh, it's JSON" and then they learn, nope, it's not: every property is optional, every property is one value or an array of values. The JSON-LD learning curve is so high that even people I think know it, generally go "yeah, nah, I still don't fully get it"
So to develop an application with JSON-LD you basically need to deal with garbage in hopefully data out. It's not familiar nor simple to 99% of web developers. It's an incredibly niche community of people who actually get it, and they tend to work at companies who really benefit from the properties of JSON-LD.
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