A more significant development, I think, would be if online services let you keep your various accounts permanently in synch. That way you could write a post on one platform and know that your followers on another platform would be able to see it.
Sadly that still wouldn't fix the problem that you have to visit each platform to see responses from users that don't similarly syndicate their own posts. That might lessen those platform's concerns about implementing this automatic synching feature, though, and take them a step closer to being properly federated.
A good point he had is that this kind of thing would, seemingly counter-intuitively (but it makes sense) strengthen the incumbents and stifle both innovation and competition.
Innovation -> Interoperability has a (maintenance) cost and would probably quickly devolve to "lowest common denominator functionality" while raising yet another barrier to entry for new companies
Competition -> Incumbents could pretty much just exploit new companies as "market research" and gobble up all their features and data if they deem the experiment successful, at no cost
Isn't Facebook legally obligated by GDPR (for example) to delete a user's data on request? Noncompliance is risky; it only takes one disgruntled employee to cause you a lot of pain.
There is no way you can actually delete anything in the cloud, because once it is in the cloud, it is not under your control anymore.
The ability to "delete" something is only apparent. You can just tell the customer you have erased her data, but preserve it anyway, not to mention other parties like secret services or competitors, that could be interested on your data too.
If you have valuable data, people(like the Chinese or competitors) will offer your workers millions of dollars(or just threaten them or you like 3 letter agencies) for access to this data.
dane-pgp|5 years ago
Sadly that still wouldn't fix the problem that you have to visit each platform to see responses from users that don't similarly syndicate their own posts. That might lessen those platform's concerns about implementing this automatic synching feature, though, and take them a step closer to being properly federated.
wmf|5 years ago
ElFitz|5 years ago
A good point he had is that this kind of thing would, seemingly counter-intuitively (but it makes sense) strengthen the incumbents and stifle both innovation and competition.
Innovation -> Interoperability has a (maintenance) cost and would probably quickly devolve to "lowest common denominator functionality" while raising yet another barrier to entry for new companies
Competition -> Incumbents could pretty much just exploit new companies as "market research" and gobble up all their features and data if they deem the experiment successful, at no cost
lostlogin|5 years ago
satyrnein|5 years ago
bumbada|5 years ago
The ability to "delete" something is only apparent. You can just tell the customer you have erased her data, but preserve it anyway, not to mention other parties like secret services or competitors, that could be interested on your data too.
If you have valuable data, people(like the Chinese or competitors) will offer your workers millions of dollars(or just threaten them or you like 3 letter agencies) for access to this data.