joelonsoftware has bajillion readers, but he is much better known for founding stackoverflow.
When SO endorses something, it will got a lot of mindshare, and becomes something that developers feel connected to.
And with enough mindshare, the same project that would have been dead in the water becomes a given.
Sort of tangent, but the fact that Block Protocol is also managing the distribution of the resulting UI components, unlike Solid which encouraged people to consume the data independently through an API, makes it more accessible.
joelonsoftware has bajillion readers, but he is much better known for founding stackoverflow.
When SO endorses something, it will got a lot of mindshare, and becomes something that developers feel connected to.
And with enough mindshare, the same project that would have been dead in the water becomes a given.