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the axiom | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 wasn't that the idea of remotestorage too?
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Nuh 🔻 | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Pubky is definitely inspired by RemoteStorage and the general Unhosted.org philosophy. I believe we do things that RemoteStorage does not do though. Most importantly; Pkarr instead of web fingers, and the paginated listing API making Pubky an ordered key value store, not just a filesystem.
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the axiom | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 how do you envision it happening? like how are users going to authenticate from a random webapp in order to read or write to their backend?
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Nuh 🔻 | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 we are further ahead from vision, we have an e2e example in pubky-core repo. And it is all specced out here https://pubky.github.io/pubky-core/spec/auth.html

Long story short; the web app asks the user for specific capabilities, the user approves by sending a signed token to the web app (using httprelay.io) then that web app uses this signed token to sign in to the user homeserver and get a good old session cookie with only the capabilities that the user approved
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melvincarvalho | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Webfinger was by far the weakest part in the stack.  So many mistakes like spinning up a new URI scheme, inventing a new JSON format, and moving away from its original use case.
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melvincarvalho | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 FWIW the inventor of unhosted/remotestorage, now works on Solid.  I remember going to the first unhosted meetups over 10 years ago, and still know one of the team.  But after a decade it's yet to take off in a major way, and newer solutions have come along.