There could be two initiatives coming together to create a more open web where users control their own digital IDs and data. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt, Project Liberty He is developing an open internet infrastructure (and throwing hats at the ring as a potential buyer for Tiktok), and announced that his organization is discussing integration with internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee solidhis open source project aims to help people control their data.
in panel On SXSW, McCourt shared that his team “talked about Solid with Tim Bernersley”, adding that “Project Liberty is compatible with Solid.”
He did not announce any official partnerships, but McCourt suggested that debates on future collaborations are ongoing.
“We’re now discussing and talking about how to incorporate it into our projects or how to incorporate it,” McCourt teased.
Berners-Lee, The Father of World Wide Webpublished in 2018, he was working with a small team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developing the team. solid. He also tapped British engineer John Bruce to lead Suptup In Suptur, a startup built on top of open source projects.
InSupt has launched a privacy platform aimed at companies that control data with online storage entities known as individual online data stores, or online storage entities known as Pods for short.
With a similar mission in mind, Bernersley has supported Project Liberty’s efforts. He too Supported Tiktok’s bid“This project has my support. The web I invented was to provide power and value to individuals who don’t currently have.”
but, there is no It is an official collaboration between SOLID, INTURD and PROJECT LIBERTY, with the latter focusing on the development of Distributed Social Networking Protocol (DSNP).
That protocol today is being adopted by only a handful of apps and other projects. I; Soar.com (Establishment of Ancestry.com Paul Allen Build apps via studio models); and blockchain without permission frequency (Developed by Project Liberty Labs).
Project Liberty too Recently announced a partnership and Free the feed,effort Focused on protecting AT protocolsenhancing Bluesky’s social network.
