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This is why we need federated social media. I can port all my data to any platform and keep a copy of my own. then when facebook does this, I can just jump to another platform with almost no friction. EG a git repo of all my data/post and linked media that I can move from github -> gitlab

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Okay, but don't get the illusion that things like Mastodon currently let you port your identity and your data.

Moving from one Mastodon instance to another involves starting over from scratch, just as much as moving from Twitter to Mastodon does. Federated portability sounds like a nice goal and I hear that some people are working on it, but nobody really knows what form it will take.

matrix.org is a great place to start. This can be the groundwork that you build all platforms from... maybe.

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