New post: Urbit is still basically just a broken computer simulator

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-				<h2>Solid</h2>
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 				<p>Solid is, according to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123132731/https://solidproject.org/">project's homepage</a>, "a specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure personal web servers for data. When data is stored in someone's Pod, they control which people and applications can access it."</p>
 				<p>Any kind of arbitrary data, from text files created by applications to music and documents uploaded through a file manager app, can be stored inside a Pod. A person's Pod stores all the data for all the apps they use inside the Solid ecosystem. Instead of person A hosting a blogging service and your blog being stored on person A's servers and person B hosting an online document editor and your documents living on person B's servers, both your blog and your documents live in your Solid Pod, and the services that others host are just interfaces for the data that lives inside your Pod.</p>
 				<p>At no point does Solid ever use a blockchain. This technically makes it "web 3.0" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221125014430/https://solidproject.org/faqs#arguably-the-semantic-web-or-linked-data-never-took-off-so-why-is-solid-working-with-it">"Semantic Web"</a>) instead of "web3" proper. But I see even technically-inclined people mix the two terms up all the time- I mean, I don't blame them; I never got the hang of all the seemingly-arbitrary numbering schemes the tech industry uses anyway- and web3 proponents will often bring up Solid when asked for an example of a functional web3 project.</p>