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lucio | 5 years ago

Maybe just force all social apps to a standard data migration format, and an easy UI to move, so you can move you data freely

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mrep|5 years ago

FYI, there is a project for that [0] of which Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter are a part of. It's not forced and is still in development but it's something.

[0]: https://datatransferproject.dev/

blululu|5 years ago

Consider that Facebook has 3 different messaging apps, and Google has an unknown number of messaging apps. Both companies have strong internal incentives to consolidate their own messaging apps and yet these efforts have never succeeded. I'm not sure if having a single universal protocol is the best idea.

glenstein|5 years ago

I was with you until the last sentence which I didn't understand.