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Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by silon42 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:13AM (#21335451)
> should advocate that users have the right to delegate data-access through APIs to third-parties

Not just third parties, but themselves (aka, write/use your own client for messenger/discord/...). This is the only way to get rid of having to use dozens of clients for various networks (apart from total standardization and federation which isn't happening anytime soon)

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Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by megous on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:31AM (#21335652)
Yeah, EU made the same mistake with banking APIs. Banks now have to have API access, but not for end users, just for registered intermediaries. It just pushes the data into hands of more corporations, instead of giving users easy access to their bank.
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Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:52AM (#21335867)
Pidgin would thrive once again!
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