# Solid

Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory)

Repository: https://github.com/solid/solid
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/solid
Homepage: https://solidproject.org
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: communication
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-08-24T14:54:37+00:00
Link (homepage): https://solidproject.org
Link (site_page): https://solidproject.org/about
Link (site_page): https://solidproject.org/FAQ

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3935, "days_push": 1470, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8093, forks 367 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:12.662332+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: auth, authorization, security, file-system, sdk, web-framework
- domain: web-development, privacy, self-hosted, apis, security
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: decentralized-web, linked-data, solid-pods, data-ownership, web-standards, tim-berners-lee, web-server

## Member repositories
- solid/solid (main) score 10
- solid/solid-spec (docs) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:12.662332+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:30:42.998508+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/solid/solid (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:12.662332+00:00, sha aa5735cf3228)
  - homepage: https://solidproject.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:29:11.798248+00:00, sha 3abbbc73db59)
  - site_page: https://solidproject.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:29:11.800612+00:00, sha 6a55d4d5c537)
  - site_page: https://solidproject.org/FAQ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:29:11.802737+00:00, sha 76971a5bf984)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.