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> A potentially bigger shift involves making data portable. Guy Rolnik and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago proposed in a recent New York Times op-ed
by djhworld 9y ago
> A potentially bigger shift involves making data portable. Guy Rolnik and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago proposed in a recent New York Times op-ed that social media users should be able to re-route all their messages onto any platform, the way phone calls are re-routed regardless of whether AT&T or Verizon is the provider
> In the 2001 AOL-Time Warner merger, the FCC forced AOL’s market-leading Instant Messenger (AIM) to be compatible with chats from rivals.
I'm not sure how this would work these days. Looking at my Dock right now I have Slack (some open source communities use this for some reason, I also use it at work), Textual for IRC (freenode), Discord (some other open source communities use this, and gaming communities), WhatsApp (personal use), Skype etc
I remember common protocols like XMPP back in the day, but it looks like the closed systems have won hearts and minds
- memco 9y agoI know with Slack there is an IRC bridge option (though I've never used it as I only recently started using slack for work). I think there's possibly bridges for discord too. Point being that if you want to consolidate you probably can. Back in the day I used to Adium, which consolidated all of my relevant messaging services into a single app. I didn't use AIM or MSN or iChat's apps ever; I simply added credentials to Adium whenever I needed. Perhaps third party services could fill the gap here as well. They don't all have to use the same protocols so long as they all have similar levels of access and someone is willing to support the integration.