Last week I started tinkering with this Solid Server from scratch, and now it works with most of my apps (including authentication!). Furthermore, it uses a Nextcloud account for storage :D.
@noeldemartin Nice! How about Penny 😁
@VincentTunru I was going to say that it doesn't work, but actually it does :D. I'm sure there are some things that are broken, but I could see my files and edit some triples :).
@noeldemartin Nice! If you see any obvious defects on Penny's side, happy to get a fix in :)
How is the latency with Nextcloud as backend?
My pod uses fuse to expose files on Google drive, Google Photos and OneDrive, but it's often painfully slow.
@jg10 I haven't tested with a lot of data, but with a couple of free Nextcloud providers I saw a noticeable difference :/. One of them was fine, I wouldn't be able to tell that it wasn't a "real POD". But another one was painfully slow, so I guess it depends on the Nextcloud server.
@jg10 The good thing though, is that since my apps are local-first that shouldn't be too much of a problem. But I'm aware it could be an issue as a general-purpose POD replacement.
However, I think it's a worthy trade off for people who are getting started with Solid. If they know nothing about Solid but have a Nextcloud/Dropbox/Google Drive/etc account they can get started with something like this and eventually migrate to a "real POD" when they need it.
This was a far fetched idea, but seeing how easy it's been, I may consider making it for real. I know the devil is in the details, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised. I also have to give credit to Laravel, which makes this type of quick prototyping a breeze.