The article isn’t real clear how the technology works.
You have your own private pod stored on a server. That’s good for some private information, especially information stored by apps.
But that’s not going to secure your browsing history, what you post to social media, etc.
So much of the privacy issue is that people expect to have free services. These companies have to make money somehow
and if they aren’t charging for their server, you are the product.
Their are companies building walkie-talkie type of devices that connect to smartphones and by pass the Internet. They create their own private mesh networks.
That might be a better way to try and get around google/fb, etc.
We really need a combination of Law and Technology to restore a measure of privacy.
No the article is vague... But I went and got one. So I am in it right now checking it out and how it works personally. The URLs are the key to this. When we can stop being dependent on .com, .org, .edu, .Etc. we have broken free of the current control and registry. Build it and they will come... :)
And you can set up your own personal server if you like. :)
And here is something cool... The only information they ask for is username, name (doesn’t have to be real), and email address. There wasn’t even an email conformation process. You are in immediately.
And everything is open source...
No.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS pretty much invented the web. He put up the first site and page on 8/6/1991. It is still there (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html).
In those early days, sites that ran web servers allowed users to put up their own information, files, programs, etc. to share. Users controlled their information. Before the web, there were gopher, ftp, and nfs (file shares spanning the network) services.
So imagine an app to replace Facebook, or even the Free Republic. The app may be free (for the Free Republic) or paid for (the Facebook Replacement). Rather than all your postings and data being on servers or data centers that you have no control over, that information is in a "pod" that belongs to you. Obviously, you'd have to pay for that "pod" but it's yours to do with as you please. Multiple apps could use your "pod." You can develop or acquire apps to put in your "pod" and you control access to those apps.
The first thing I put up onto the web was an audio file of me pronouncing my last name. That was in 1994 or so.