Hacker News Reader

> the lever is demanding transparency on exactly what these companies are doing.

I think a even more powerful lever would be having laws that allow consumers easily export their data from one platform to another or make internet companies adopt a common standard for increasing interoperability of users data.

View on HN

Or even not a law, but a standard / RFC and a working implementation of it by a few large companies, for others to follow suit.

If only there'd be an incentive for a few large companies to pull this off, the way they do with other standards (see HTML5 or AV1 for recent examples).

"Set a common standard, or we'll set it for you."

Do you think this is what Tim Berners-Lee's Solid is attempting to position itself for?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com