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Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own digital identities and data, may be coming together. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt, whose Project Liberty is developing open internet infrastructure (and is throwing its hat in the ring as a potential buyer for TikTok), announced that his organization has been in discussions with internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee about an integration with Solid, his open source project aimed at giving people control over their own data.

In a panel at SXSW, McCourt shared that his team had “talked to Tim Berners-Lee about Solid,” adding that “Project Liberty is compatible with Solid.”

Though he didn’t announce an official partnership, McCourt suggested that discussions were underway on a future collaboration.

“We’re debating, or talking, right now about how to incorporate that — him and Solid, his Solid Pods — into the project,” McCourt teased.