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Besides being infeasible for multiple reasons, how would that help with any of the problems pointed in the article (except the monopoly part)?

• kethinov 8y ago
  Of course it's feasible. There are already plenty of ways to migrate Twitter/FB data to Mastodon/Diaspora. To do a full migration, we would need an antitrust ruling with an order to perform the migration. It isn't likely but it is feasible. Solving the monopoly problem indirectly solves (or at least reduces the severity of) other problems. When one big bad actor gets reduced to twelve small actors, when one of those actors acts badly it's a smaller problem.
  • vkou 8y ago
    Migration isn't the problem. Lack of interop between platforms is. It doesn't matter that there's a Facebook clone that you can migrate your profile to, when nobody you want to talk to is using it.
    • kethinov 8y ago
      Mastodon and Diaspora are federated.
      • vkou 8y ago
        Can I talk to my Facebook friends from Mastodon? If the answer is no, then no amount of Facebook->Mastodon migration legislature is going to make a compelling case to switch, and the network effect will keep me in the Facebook ecosystem.
        • kethinov 8y ago
          If Facebook were broken up into a dozen Diaspora instances, the answer is yes. That's the whole point of using antitrust law in this way. To solve that problem.