> we felt like we had a sense that reputation portability was a real issue for some gig economy workers But it wasn't an issue for the "gig economy" platforms.

> we felt like we had a sense that reputation portability was a real issue for some gig economy workers But it wasn't an issue for the "gig economy" platforms. They are happy to lock in workers by not exporting ratings. On top of that, accepting imported ratings would provide a boost to the competitors that export ratings. So, what's the business case? Pretty design, but I'm amazed somebody could write an article covering so many detailed questions and not even touch on this rather fundamental one. It reminds me a bit of the heady OpenID days where every piddling website was an OpenID IdP (identity provider), but next to no websites actually accepted OpenID logins.