The project of initiatives on the Open Liberty and Solid web could team up
Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users control their own identities and digital data, can meet. In SXSW 2025, the entrepreneur Frank McCourt, of which Project Liberty Develops an open internet infrastructure (and is Throw your hat in the ring as A potential buyer for Tiktok), announced that his organization had had discussions with the internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on integration with Solidher Open source project targeted To give people control their own data.
In a sign In SXSW, McCourt shared that his team had “spoke to Tim Berners-Lee de Solid”, adding that “Project Liberty is compatible with Solid”.
Although he did not announce an official partnership, McCourt suggested that discussions were underway for future collaboration.
“We are debating or talking at the moment of how to incorporate this – him and solid, his solid pods – in the project,” said McCourt.
Berners-Lee, known as the name Father of the World Wide Web,, announced in 2018 that he was working with a small team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop Solid. He also had the British engineer John Bruce to go up EnlistedA startup built above the open source project.
Inrurup has launched a privacy platform for businessesWhere people control their data in online storage entities called personal online data stores, or cloves for short.
With missions similar to the mind, Berners-Lee supported the efforts of Project Liberty. He even supported its Tiktok offerBy saying: “This project has my support. The web I invented was to provide power and value to individuals, which they do not have yet. »»
However, There is no been an official collaboration between solid and inrupted and project Liberty, the latter who focuses on the development of Decentralized social networking protocol (DSNP).
This protocol is today adopted by a handful of applications and other projects, in particular Manufacturing; Soar.com (Founded by ancestry.com Paul Allen To create applications via a studio model); and the blockchain without authorization Frequency (developed by Project Liberty Labs).
Project Liberty too recently announced a partnership with Free our flowsan effort focused on protecting the AT protocolwhich feeds the Bluesky social network.
