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1. Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 22:35:06 JST Kote Isaev

   • Aral Balkan

   What is difference between the SOLID project https://solidproject.org/ and the work the Small Tech Foundation https://small-tech.org/ does?
   @aral can you explain the practical difference?
   Their website is more developers-oriented, in hope that if developers will make apps that follow SOLID spec, more people will get their pod, looking for functionality or useful behavior these apps provide. And more people get used to idea they can own the data about themselves.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 22:35:05 JST Aral Balkan

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     @koteisaev We’re a tiny not for profit, not a startup with ~$50 million venture capital investment.

     https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/inrupt/company_financials

   • Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 23:00:22 JST Kote Isaev

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Sorry, Aral, I am not asking about _these_ aspects.
     I just noticed that there are _technical_ similarity around concepts, like:
     ⭐ user owns data
     ⭐ user controls who can read or update data
     ⭐ user hosts data on some special thingy - that is generally speaking "publicly accessible" - you can discover it via some URL. In sense that data not hosted e. g. on user device as phone or PC, but on somewhere in internet?
     ⭐ decentralization is a goal.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 23:00:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     @koteisaev The technical design is determined by the organisational design. Who a project is owned and funded by determines its success criteria and what it can and cannot become. I’ve given you the most important technical difference between the two approaches. Everything else is a symptom of that.

   • Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 23:15:19 JST Kote Isaev

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Due to my professional background, I put most attention not to ownership of project, but to project functionality, provided to people who will use the project - for personal needs or as an organization. I intentionally say "person" and "organization" instead of "user", after reading web0 manifesto and other your works.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 23:15:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     @koteisaev Indeed but I think we’re talking about two different things: In Small Tech, we make things for people not “users” because our goal is not to exploit them for profit. A venture capital funded startup exists to exploit people for profit and provide a return on investment to its investors. How an organisation is funded and its success criteria determines the character of the technology that is created.