Sign Of The Times: Big Tech Comes Together To Create Interoperability Tool So Users Can Move Between Services

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Sat, 07/21/2018 - 8:25am

Once upon a time, online services differentiated themselves from competitors by promising not to lock their users in (memorably, Flickr offered an API that would let you export all your photos, your social graph and the comments and other metadata to any other service that had a similar API), but as slumbering antitrust regulators allowed wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions, so tech become Big Tech, walled gardens made a roaring comeback, with services quietly shelving the ability to move between them. (more…)

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