Honestly, this could, if designed and implemented correctly, be exactly what we need to break the stranglehold the current social media giants have on the indus

Honestly, this could, if designed and implemented correctly, be exactly what we need to break the stranglehold the current social media giants have on the industry. Having public APIs for every major social media platform means that, at least in theory, a single third-party app could give you access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit (plus more!). It could even give you access to your social media contacts aggregated across all those platforms. This would mean that if one of your friends wanted to move from platform A to platform B, as long as you had at least some account with both of them, you wouldn't have to change much about how you communicate with them. It could also mean that social media services would have the ability to tap into each other's APIs—thus making it possible to simply import your entire contact list and history (or as much of it as the destination service supported) from one service to another. If we could get an effort like this to fully succeed, it could very well bring us to something much closer to the decentralized social media future that some people were talking about several years ago.