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Comment by benwr | Hacker News Reader

As far as I'm aware, Posterous has done nothing to actively discourage migration of information away from their service, and they certainly haven't threatened legal action on anyone for moving their online information around.

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I am simply asking Posterous to take moral high ground. Give a feature where people can export their posts in standard data formats. then go ahead and target your competitors.

You can easily get all the data from XML feeds. Or you can use their API to get all the data out through XML or JSON. Both are standard formats. I am pretty sure no one offers a export my data function. Not even Tumblr.

I dont know about Tumblr. but wordpress & livejournal supports metaweblog i think. may be tumblr should support it as well.

Posterous supports XML/JSON but that's not good enough for you since they don't support metaweblog. While we are at it, I would want Posterous to support .txt, .ini, .html, NewsML and any other plethora of the formats that exists.

Your argument is flawed and you are changing your base premise when called out.

techtruth, we do offer your data in standard formats: XML through our API. See:

http://posterous.com/api/reading

What exactly are you looking for? We're open to suggestions and will gladly expand our API to keep Posterous open and flexible.

There's no hypocrisy here. Our goal is to let users move into and out of posterous at will, and use whatever service they find to be best.

Thanks!

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