It is so weird to read stuff like: "When these apps get acquired [like Instagram did by Facebook], users don’t get to choose how to access their data" but no me

It is so weird to read stuff like: "When these apps get acquired [like Instagram did by Facebook], users don’t get to choose how to access their data" but no mention about what happens if app.net gets acquired like Instagram did by Facebook. And then "openness and control over your own social-media content" how is it more open then Facebook or Twitter where you, exactly like on App.net, can download your content as a JSON file or something like that but you can't do anything with it anymore after that. You can't just go to a different provider and you can't either host it yourself, like you can for example with email, because then you can't play with the other users anymore. You have either to stay and pay or leve and make your data worthless, just some JSON file on your computers hard drive. That is not openess and control over your own social-media content, that is exactly the opposite, it is exactly what Facebook and Twitter do too. If you really are interested in openess and controll over your own social-media content then you will need to take a different approach. I myself like how Tent ( https://tent.io https://tent.io ) does it. There you're really in controll. If you don't like one provider for whatever reason, just move your content automatically to some other provider, or even, like I do, host your own server without any drawbacks. You still have your network of friends you still get their updates, you still have the data you put into it, you still can use the same applications, etc.