Two initiatives to create a more open network, where users are under the control of their identity and their digital data can be joined. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt, whose Liberty project is developing open internet infrastructure (and is throwing his hat on the ring as a potential Tiktok buyer), announced that his organization was in discussions with the Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee in connection with a solid integration, with a solid integration, people over their data.
At a panel in SXSW, McCourt said his team had “talked to Tim Berners-Lee for Solid”, adding that “Liberty project is compatible with solids”.
Although he did not announce an official partnership, McCourt suggested that discussions were underway for future cooperation.
“We are arguing, or talking, now about how to include it – it and strong, its solid pods – in the project,” McCourt was scattered.
Berners-Lee, known as the father of World Wide Web, announced in 2018 that he had worked with a small team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop solids. He had also tapped British engineer John Bruce to get up, a startup built at the top of the open source project.
Instrument has continued to launch a platform of intimacy aimed at enterprises, where people control their data in online storage entities called personal data stores, or pods for February.
With similar missions in mind, Berners-Lee has been a supporter of the Liberty project efforts. He even supported his TIKTOK offer, saying: “This project has my support. The web that invented was to provide power and value to individuals, which they do not currently have. “
However, there has been no official cooperation between Solid and Iniment and Project Freedom, the latter is focused on the development of the decentralized social networking protocol (DSNP).
This protocol today is being adopted by a small proportion of other applications and projects, including Mewe; Soar.com (founded by Paul Allen of ancestry.com to build applications through a studio model); and the frequency of illegal blockchain (developed by Project Liberty Labs).
The Liberty project also recently announced a partnership with Free Our Feeds, a focused effort in protecting the AT protocol, which strengthens Bluesky’s social network.
