U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them

Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by Funes- on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:23PM (#21336186)

>> Under the bill the companies would be required to maintain an interface to facilitate interoperability.

This would be easily achieved with ActivityPub [0].

>> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members [...] to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network...

That's the idea behind Berners-Lee's Solid [1].

I wish legislators were more in touch with open-source technology innovators. I feel the FOSS movement's philosophy and the idea of having collective technologies promoted and funded by the government go hand in hand.

[0] https://activitypub.rocks/

[1] https://solid.inrupt.com/

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Re:U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take ... by Vinnl on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:00PM (#21338323)

Solid is not the first effort in this area, but the timing w.r.t. consumer sentiment and legislation, combined with the clout of TimBL, does make it feel like it has a serious shot at success.

(Disclosure: I work at inrupt, the main commercial player supporting Solid, founded by TimBL.)

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