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Do you know what happened to them (and/or some of the other companies/projects/initiatives that launched with the same goals)?
by ot1138 5y ago
Do you know what happened to them (and/or some of the other companies/projects/initiatives that launched with the same goals)?
- mxmilkiib 5y agoI've a messy collection of links (many of which I need to web.archive.org fix) on https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Open_social#DataPortability https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Open_social#DataPortability that you might be interested in. Basically, companies thought it more profitable to not put any effort into letting users escape their service (or keep chat federated, etc.) Various threads are still around though.
- ot1138 5y agoWow, this has been around for awhile. Pretty interesting take on this in the link to Brad Fitzpatrick's article from 2007. Your statement about companies being unmotivated to support anything like this rings true to me. It is exactly what I would expect. The question is, what might motivate them.
- mxmilkiib 5y agoProof that it works, that it can lead to customers migrating in. Or some kind of legislation. Main point is for it to work though. Personally, I'm waiting for some combo of SOLID, the Fediverse and Matrix. SOLID is like FOAF and XFN and *dav and etc on steroids, very JS orientated though and not the most friendly of UX.