Re: ActivityPods 2.0 – A link between Solid and ActivityPub

st 9. 10. 2024 v 19:31 odesílatel Chris Messina <chris.messina@gmail.com>
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> Hi Melvin, can you offer some insights about the current adoption and
> usage of Solid? Would love to understand more about the user base, their
> use cases, and where I can see more Solid-based apps/personal websites.
>
> Congrats on the launch!
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Hey Chris.

This launch was with the ActivityPods team, but I’m mostly focused on
SolidOS now, which aims to build a Web OS based on Solid. ActivityPub
integration is definitely on the roadmap.

As for adoption, I’m not the best person for exact numbers since a lot of
that isn’t public, and we don’t collect detailed user stats. That said, I
ran the first and largest public Solid pod for about a quarter of a decade.
We had 50k-100k signups, but retention was low—less than 100 daily active
users, mostly due to bugs, especially with the auth system. People tried
it, hit issues, and didn’t stick around. Still lots of room for
improvement, and we’re working on it.

Inrupt is doing a lot of enterprise work, though we don’t have insight into
their numbers. They seem to be doing well as a business. There’s also been
talk of Solid being used for 6.5 million citizens in Flanders. The Press
Release mentioned it would be the foundation for a government-hosted data
vault, but I’m not sure if it’s live yet.

Solid is part of a working group now and might become a standard by
2026-2027, if all goes well. For now, we’ve got a few teams improving
different parts of Solid, about 10 loosely active devs on SolidOS, and
maybe 100+ in the broader ecosystem.


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> On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 1:11 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just wanted to share a link that might interest those of you who are into
>> both Solid (Social Linked Data) and ActivityPub, like me! ActivityPods 2.0
>> is out, and it explores the intersection of these two standards. Solid is
>> now part of its own W3C Working Group, Linked Web Storage, and I think it
>> would be great for AP users to gain personal storage, and for Solid users
>> restart their microblogging efforts.
>>
>> Here’s the link: https://activitypods.org/activitypods-2-0-is-out
>>
>> Best, Melvin
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