Solid Pods and choosing where your data lives
The app you enjoy using today may not be the one you want in five years. If it is also the only useful way to reach your stored information, changing apps becomes a much larger decision. Choosing where your data lives can give you another kind of control.
A Solid Pod is a personal online data store. Apps request permission to use data there, which separates the place holding the information from the particular app presenting it. You can think about the two choices independently: where to keep your material, and which tool you want to use with it.
That changes what an app ought to compete on. It has to offer a useful way of working with your information. A person's accumulated history should give them more to do with a new tool, rather than becoming the reason they feel unable to try one.
TouchGrass includes native Pod storage and connections for Solid as part of its open-web work. The idea matters to us because independence should extend to the things people create. Social software ought to give people more say over where those things live and how they are used.
A Solid Pod is a personal online data store. Apps request permission to use data there, which separates the place holding the information from the particular app presenting it. You can think about the two choices independently: where to keep your material, and which tool you want to use with it.
That changes what an app ought to compete on. It has to offer a useful way of working with your information. A person's accumulated history should give them more to do with a new tool, rather than becoming the reason they feel unable to try one.
TouchGrass includes native Pod storage and connections for Solid as part of its open-web work. The idea matters to us because independence should extend to the things people create. Social software ought to give people more say over where those things live and how they are used.