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Its an issue private companies are owning the social networks which are the real value for most people. Ie you give away private information which are then sold
by acd 9y ago
Its an issue private companies are owning the social networks which are the real value for most people. Ie you give away private information which are then sold as targeted ads to you.
For example SMTP is an internet standard yet almost none of the new tech is standardized chat, social networks.
- pmlnr 9y ago> none of the new tech is standardized chat XMPP? > social networks This is on it's way (sort of) in form of ActivityStreams, webmentions + h-feed, etc. Making something into a standard unfortunately takes a lot of time but with the GDPR it might even get a push, data portability wise.