I've been following this project and developing for it for some time now. While it's been slow to develop, I think the combination of Linked Data and decentralization is the best way forward. Many LD schemas are widely used, and now with DIDs the Web can be joined with blockchain and other approaches to make private, trustworthy systems with self-describing data and information designed for reuse and actual AI algorithms.

Here are a couple of useful links http://computingjoy.com/blog/2016/09/26/understanding-linked...

https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-f...

I still don’t get it.

I truly believe that until they can show a simple use case that people will use, that this site/technology will continue to live in the darkness.

Please, please put a simple use case on your website. Maybe something like how if I use pod that I can share pictures with friends and they can view them without setting up their own pod - maybe just an account somewhere, or, even better, show how I can have some pictures that are public to the world but others that only my friends can see.

Until then, this is like reading a dictionary - not useful and not very exciting.

I’m hugely in favour of this approach: basically it affords users ownership of their data and relegates the “platforms” to accessing and displaying that data. This would re-enable competition in the social network ‘space’ by compelling platforms to display the data in the least obnoxious manner possible and by eliminating their (future) ability to profile their users.

Of course it leaves unaddressed the “create a POD containing all your current data” aspect: some kind of creation tool that assembles such an item out of automated Facebook, Google, & cetera download tools would be very handy in this regard.