"Is there something better coming?” I think it’s #Mastodon; and I think it’s Mastodon for a bunch of reasons. One is that the Mastodon standard was developed when the tech platforms were totally disinterested and didn’t have their fingers on the scale...."
@tchambers Is there such a thing as a "Mastodon standard", or is that just a figure of speech?
It seems a little backward to state that ActivityPub governs Mastodon, I thought it was the reverse, that Mastodon adopted the ActivityPub protocol. Also thought the right to exit was a Mastodon-only thing. Export tooling, etc. isn't discussed in the protocol spec, unless I missed it.
@tchambers@devnull Fair, but the shorthand makes it sound like #ActivityPub provides @pluralistic’s “right to exit” when it doesn’t—that’s #Mastodon, and it only provides the “right to exit” to another Mastodon instance in the #fediverse. If you want to go to or from another type of service, you’re SOL.
@mjgardner@tchambers@pluralistic well, as per #GDPR the minimum is to be able to export the data in a common format. We use csv at #nodebb, and while you can't easily reimport that format back to another piece of software it is still possible at least.
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