Solid

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Solid is a set of open standards and tools for building decentralized web applications where users store their data in personal online data stores (Pods) that they control. It is based on Linked Data principles and lets applications read and write to a user's Pod only with the user's permission.

Use cases

• build decentralized web apps that store user data in personal pods
• give users control over who can access their personal data
• store personal data once and reuse it across multiple apps
• replace platform-locked data silos with interoperable data storage
• implement web access control and identity for decentralized apps
• let users switch service providers without losing their data

When to choose

• you want users to own and control their own data instead of your platform
• you need interoperable, standards-based personal data storage
• you are building privacy-first applications with fine-grained access control
• you want to experiment with decentralized web and Linked Data technologies

When to avoid

• you need a mature, turnkey product rather than a standards ecosystem
• your app relies on centralized data silos or traditional SaaS data models
• you need a large ecosystem of libraries and tooling with mainstream adoption
• you cannot operate or choose a Pod server provider

Facets

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auth authorization security file-system sdk web-framework web-development privacy self-hosted apis security cross-platform self-hosted decentralized-web linked-data solid-pods data-ownership web-standards tim-berners-lee web-server

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