Re: Bluesky spins out an entity for did:plc

On 2025-09-20 20:55, emelia wrote:
> It's kinda like how people tried to cram absolutely everything into the 
> webid documents in solid.

Kinda?

Which people?

Tried what?

Absolutely everything refers to?

As far as I know, there may be two relevant specifications to what you 
have in mind for your statement. If you had others in mind, please share:

https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol


https://solid.github.io/webid-profile/


Can you point out where in those specs your claim is supported? Or are 
you referring to specific implementations or published documents?

Are you bringing up some Solid/WebID history as if it proves your case, 
when the technologies and design choices differ? Because if so, that's 
perhaps kinda like a red herring?

I'm not aware of Solid "people" trying to cram absolutely everything 
into a WebID document, but I'm all ears.

 From experience, the vast majority of WebID documents use the WebID URI 
as the subject. Sure, there can be other statements where it's not (it 
is not forbidden), but pointing that out feels pedantic.

Payloads and notifications in both Solid and ActivityPub often include 
auxiliary information in order to minimise network requests. Likewise, 
ActivityPub Activities frequently wrap the Object with considerable 
detail. Would you consider that to be "cramming everything" into the 
Activity? Or is it simply a design choice in linked data representation?

"Linked data" people / connectionists do not see the world as binary. 
There is a spectrum of approaches to describing a resource, and in 
practice, that's just how the web tends to work.

-Sarven
https://csarven.ca/#i