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Being able to take your data with you is good but most of the value in social media is due to the network effect. If you can't seamlessly being your connections with you, the incumbents will continue to have a huge advantage over newcomers to the market. In the context of social media, how could someone bring their connections with them to a new platform without compromising the rights of those connected to?
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I would love to do that. Move all my Instagram pics to Pixelfed and all my tweets to Mastodon. Not sure I could do that with the way things are now.
do all your tweets just mean top level? or all your replies to others as well? and the resulting threads?
Isn't it the whole idea behind https://solid.inrupt.com/ ?
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I would love to do that. Move all my Instagram pics to Pixelfed and all my tweets to Mastodon. Not sure I could do that with the way things are now.
But that kind of makes no sense. It'll be completely out of context and it's not going to provide much value. Wet can't you just link to your Twitter on mastodon?
Facebook already has a data export feature. You have to manually navigate to that page and download a giant zip file. Cool.
The much more important concept being proposed here is delegation:
> Under the bill the companies would be required to maintain an interface to facilitate interoperability. Or users would be allowed to choose another company to manage a user’s account settings, content, and online interactions, the statement said.
Very few people are going to manually export their data from Facebook. But they might go to a new network that supports cross-posting to Facebook, or an automatic import that doesn't require them to navigate Facebook's menus.
Delegation is a severely underappreciated digital right. Beyond advocating for data-exports, we should advocate that users have the right to delegate data-access through APIs to third-parties. If I can manually update/download my Facebook status, I should also be allowed to programmatically update it. And I should be able to authorize another person to update/download it on my behalf.
> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members - Facebook has more than two billion - to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network, Warner’s office said in a statement. Facebook already has a data export feature. You have to manually navigate to that page and download a giant zip file. Cool. The much more important concept being propose…
> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members - Facebook has more than two billion - to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network, Warner’s office said in a statement. I assume that this proposal is based on good intentions. But how they want to overcome the technical hurdles is a mystery to me. Who decides, how facebook should structu…
We have open banking API in UK, which is much more useful than having an export button. It allows for actual interoperability. You could draw inspiration from that.
Who asked for this, exactly? I know plenty of users who would like to delete their data--I can't think of too many that want to port it over somewhere else. Is the idea that this would fuel competition by allowing people to migrate their history over to decentralized/federated alternatives?
>delete their data Which is arguably, at least in part, actually in opposition to this. To the degree that data can be better exported and spread around, it's more likely to be persisted than if it's locked up in a single company's system.
I don't see these as being in opposition at all.
> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members - Facebook has more than two billion - to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network, Warner’s office said in a statement. Facebook already has a data export feature. You have to manually navigate to that page and download a giant zip file. Cool. The much more important concept being propose…
So, facebook and twitter already have apis for almost all their functions. What's the goal of this legislation?
> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members - Facebook has more than two billion - to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network, Warner’s office said in a statement. Facebook already has a data export feature. You have to manually navigate to that page and download a giant zip file. Cool. The much more important concept being propose…
So, facebook and twitter already have apis for almost all their functions. What's the goal of this legislation?