Mosaic Intro

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*Hi All, *

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It is great to see so many passionate and capable people in this group. 
I am sorry to have missed the kick-off call but hope to make the next one.


My interest in Solid is the power of its principles to enable a more 
free, open, and cooperative Web and world. To me it represents the 
promise of coming closer to the original vision for the Web, a platform 
that would increase human capacity, our political and economy health, 
and our collective intelligence. My assessment is that individual 
sovereignty on the Web, an extension of civil rights in the digital age, 
is a fundamental requirement to achieving these broader social ends. 
Solid’s data ownership and data portability architecture are critical 
pieces of the puzzle. I am probably preaching to the choir!


My role is to help “bring people together to build the next generation 
Web”. You can learn more here https://mosaic.social/. The objective of 
Mosaic is to connect teams, technologies, and financing to bring 
user-centrc (“Self Sovereign”) P2P apps to market. My hope is to 
facilitate the connection between disparate parties that may not know 
about each, but who together can provide all of the necessary 
ingredients required to brings Solid apps to market, have a sustainable 
business model, and designed to maximize social well being. The 
technology is critical, but so are funding, business models, marketing, 
and psychologists who specialize in human-centered design.


The Mosaic website was launched to communicate a basic technology 
framework*(very much still open for debate)* and some app concepts to 
spark the imagination and get dialogue going about what app ideas have 
the most support (e.g, existing technology, funding, and public demand). 
I am heavily leaning toward starting with a decentralized Facebook 
application because it exemplifies the struggle for the future of the 
Web and because an alternative, or anti, facebook is a simple concept 
for people to understand. However, choosing this app presents some 
challenges as there are deep problems around distributed search, fake 
news, and identity to solve. These issues may prove to be intractable 
problems but I think it’s worth systematically exploring whether a good 
decentralized and Solid-based Facebook could be designed. Opinions on 
these topics are most welcome!


I would gladly engage with others in this group around these high level 
design considerations as well as sustainable and equitable business 
models for bringing Solid apps to market.


Kind Regards,

Adam Lake

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