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The Solid project by Tim Berners Lee has the same idea. People have a personal data POD with an API to interact with. Social websites pull data from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

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Also reminds me of the Islet idea, from this Carl Hewitt talk: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/strong-types-actor-iot

I think this is the way of the future and it's exciting to think about. Who you are is yours, not some other social media sites. You control what is and is not available. That would be good.

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