#dataportability — Public Fediverse posts

European Commission opens formal investigations into whether AWS and Azure should be regulated as digital gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

The investigations will examine anti-competitive practices, lock-in effects, and barriers that make it difficult for smaller competitors to gain traction and will likely take 12 months to complete.

AWS and Azure together command roughly 50-60% of the cloud market in the EU. Vendors could face new demanding obligations around interoperability, data portability, and and fair access for competitors. https://cryptobriefing.com/microsoft-aws-eu-cloud-probe/ #EU #AWS #Azure #Microsoft #Cloud #CloudServices #DataPortability #Competition #Lock-in #DMA #Regulation #Amazon

European Commission opens formal investigations into whether AWS and Azure should be regulated as digital gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

The investigations will examine anti-competitive practices, lock-in effects, and barriers that make it difficult for smaller competitors to gain traction and will likely take 12 months to complete.

AWS and Azure together command roughly 50-60% of the cloud market in the EU. Vendors could face new demanding obligations around interoperability, data portability, and and fair access for competitors. https://cryptobriefing.com/microsoft-aws-eu-cloud-probe/ #EU #AWS #Azure #Microsoft #Cloud #CloudServices #DataPortability #Competition #Lock-in #DMA #Regulation #Amazon

“#Dataportability is the ability of a user to receive their personal data, by downloading it in a format that would be transferable to other platforms. This could include friends or connections, comments, photos, likes, and their social graph. [Like the] ability to move telephone n°s from one provider to another, which was mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1966.
The #Utah #DigitalChoiceAct mandates portability practices for your personal data and #socialgraph.”

https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/utah-digital-choice-act-reshaping-social-media/

“#Dataportability is the ability of a user to receive their personal data, by downloading it in a format that would be transferable to other platforms. This could include friends or connections, comments, photos, likes, and their social graph. [Like the] ability to move telephone n°s from one provider to another, which was mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1966.
The #Utah #DigitalChoiceAct mandates portability practices for your personal data and #socialgraph.”

https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/utah-digital-choice-act-reshaping-social-media/

Digital autonomy ?

"Australia’s digital policy shouldn’t be dictated by large platforms or external geopolitical actors."

"The “digital sovereignty” movement in the European Union (EU) can show us the way. European countries are gradually breaking up with American tech giants and pushing for local AI development, all in the name of achieving digital autonomy."

"The ultimate goal here is digital autonomy. It means reducing reliance on systems vulnerable to growing geopolitical and economic risks. If you make your own devices and host your data locally, you’re not at the mercy of multinational corporations whose interests may not align with your own."

"Decentralised social media ecosystems allow independently operated communities to communicate across shared protocols without being controlled by a single corporation. One such example is the Fediverse, which includes platforms like micro-blogging site Mastodon and video sharing site PeerTube." >>
https://theconversation.com/nearly-everything-we-use-online-is-owned-by-big-tech-theres-a-better-way-forward-282969

Federated Networks (The Fediverse):
https://jointhefediverse.net/learn/?lang=en-us

But in Bellingen, NSW they are clinging to foreign owned platforms. Here communication communicates via facebook or its is not. (Could be a Niklas Luhmann quote)
#communication #CommunicationSystems #DigitalSpaces #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalCommunities #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #DataPortability #BigTech #platforms #EconomicImperatives #PlatformCapitalism #MonopolisticPlatforms #CorporateOwnership #SeigniorialPower #seigneurialism #manorialism #PowerRelations #AI #SocialMedia #fediverse #governance #DiscursiveSpace #democracy #autonomy #agora #PublicSphere #PublicSpheresOfProduction

Digital autonomy ?

"Australia’s digital policy shouldn’t be dictated by large platforms or external geopolitical actors."

"The “digital sovereignty” movement in the European Union (EU) can show us the way. European countries are gradually breaking up with American tech giants and pushing for local AI development, all in the name of achieving digital autonomy."

"The ultimate goal here is digital autonomy. It means reducing reliance on systems vulnerable to growing geopolitical and economic risks. If you make your own devices and host your data locally, you’re not at the mercy of multinational corporations whose interests may not align with your own."

"Decentralised social media ecosystems allow independently operated communities to communicate across shared protocols without being controlled by a single corporation. One such example is the Fediverse, which includes platforms like micro-blogging site Mastodon and video sharing site PeerTube." >>
https://theconversation.com/nearly-everything-we-use-online-is-owned-by-big-tech-theres-a-better-way-forward-282969

Federated Networks (The Fediverse):
https://jointhefediverse.net/learn/?lang=en-us

But in Bellingen, NSW they are clinging to foreign owned platforms. Here communication communicates via facebook or its is not. (Could be a Niklas Luhmann quote)
#communication #CommunicationSystems #DigitalSpaces #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalCommunities #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #DataPortability #BigTech #platforms #EconomicImperatives #PlatformCapitalism #MonopolisticPlatforms #CorporateOwnership #SeigniorialPower #seigneurialism #manorialism #PowerRelations #AI #SocialMedia #fediverse #governance #DiscursiveSpace #democracy #autonomy #agora #PublicSphere #PublicSpheresOfProduction

I’m excited to share my latest article on why Open Source data portability is more than a technical feature: It’s a freedom issue and a competitive advantage.

When organizations can move their data without friction, they gain more control, reduce lock-in, and create better long-term options for innovation and growth.

Read the full article here: https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-data-portability-freedom-competitive-advantage
#OpenSource #DataPortability #DigitalSovereignty

I’m excited to share my latest article on why Open Source data portability is more than a technical feature: It’s a freedom issue and a competitive advantage.

When organizations can move their data without friction, they gain more control, reduce lock-in, and create better long-term options for innovation and growth.

Read the full article here: https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-data-portability-freedom-competitive-advantage
#OpenSource #DataPortability #DigitalSovereignty

🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀

Kevin D. Korte makes the case that open source without data portability is incomplete freedom.

Open formats, clear APIs, and strong documentation help users move freely and projects work better together.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-data-portability-freedom-competitive-advantage

#WeLoveOpenSource #OpenSource #DataPortability #Interoperability

🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀

Kevin D. Korte makes the case that open source without data portability is incomplete freedom.

Open formats, clear APIs, and strong documentation help users move freely and projects work better together.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-data-portability-freedom-competitive-advantage

#WeLoveOpenSource #OpenSource #DataPortability #Interoperability

New blog post.

Local-first iOS apps respecting privacy and not treating users and their data as a commodity are rare and few. I have been cataloging such apps, and here’s a list.

If you know of other similar mobile apps, please share them. Thanks!

https://jsynowiec.github.io/posts/apps-with-boundaries/

#DataPortability #PrivacyFirst #NoTracking #iOS #iPadOS #app #LocaFirst #PrivacyMatters #mobileApp #recommendations

New blog post.

Local-first iOS apps respecting privacy and not treating users and their data as a commodity are rare and few. I have been cataloging such apps, and here’s a list.

If you know of other similar mobile apps, please share them. Thanks!

https://jsynowiec.github.io/posts/apps-with-boundaries/

#DataPortability #PrivacyFirst #NoTracking #iOS #iPadOS #app #LocaFirst #PrivacyMatters #mobileApp #recommendations

WordPress Needs Better Export Support. You can do almost anything with your data from self-hosted WordPress, but if you're with WordPress (com), you're out of luck unless you pay for a business plan 😢 Please fix this, Automattic! #wordpress #dataportability

https://thiar.ca/2026/03/18/wordpress-needs-better-export-support/

WordPress Needs Better Export Support. You can do almost anything with your data from self-hosted WordPress, but if you're with WordPress (com), you're out of luck unless you pay for a business plan 😢 Please fix this, Automattic! #wordpress #dataportability

https://thiar.ca/2026/03/18/wordpress-needs-better-export-support/

@jerod It's actually quite broad. Check out Article 6(9) of the #DMA which makes #DataPortability mandatory for gatekeepers like #Apple, #Google, #Meta or #Microsoft.

I'm not an #Instagram user but under this law, Insta must allow users to extract all their account data and provide an #API to third parties to do that for users.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32022R1925#art_6

@jerod It's actually quite broad. Check out Article 6(9) of the #DMA which makes #DataPortability mandatory for gatekeepers like #Apple, #Google, #Meta or #Microsoft.

I'm not an #Instagram user but under this law, Insta must allow users to extract all their account data and provide an #API to third parties to do that for users.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32022R1925#art_6

Hey @loops, thanks to the EU #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA, #Tiktok has created an #API for third party apps / competitors that is supposed to enable real-time #DataPortability for users who wish to switch.

Have you considered putting an Tiktok account import function on the #Loops roadmap?

Hey @loops, thanks to the EU #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA, #Tiktok has created an #API for third party apps / competitors that is supposed to enable real-time #DataPortability for users who wish to switch.

Have you considered putting an Tiktok account import function on the #Loops roadmap?

I was fortunate present my thoughts at #FOSDEM 2026. I think it went pretty well... though a little rushed.

It's at least a good survey of where I think we as a community need to head, and how my work on #Emissary meets each of these needs

Key Points:
* Bring creators to the Fediverse (#OnlinePayments)
* Work together to operate like a single unit (#FEP3b86)
* Killer Features they can't copy (#DataPortability)
* Whatever YOU do, go make the Fediverse better

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CP7KWX-emissary-and-the-fediverse/

🤘🏻

I was fortunate present my thoughts at #FOSDEM 2026. I think it went pretty well... though a little rushed.

It's at least a good survey of where I think we as a community need to head, and how my work on #Emissary meets each of these needs

Key Points:
* Bring creators to the Fediverse (#OnlinePayments)
* Work together to operate like a single unit (#FEP3b86)
* Killer Features they can't copy (#DataPortability)
* Whatever YOU do, go make the Fediverse better

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CP7KWX-emissary-and-the-fediverse/

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📝 The Danish Approach to Deepfakes: Can Copyright Protect Digital Identity?

A critical analysis of the Danish proposal to use copyright law to protect citizens from AI-generated deepfakes, with reflections on the implications for the European regulatory framework.

🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/danish-copyright-deepfakes/

#ArtificialIntelligence #KnowledgeManagement #DigitalSovereignty #DataPortability #DigitalRights

📝 The Danish Approach to Deepfakes: Can Copyright Protect Digital Identity?

A critical analysis of the Danish proposal to use copyright law to protect citizens from AI-generated deepfakes, with reflections on the implications for the European regulatory framework.

🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/danish-copyright-deepfakes/

#ArtificialIntelligence #KnowledgeManagement #DigitalSovereignty #DataPortability #DigitalRights

📝 Markdown: From 2004 to the AI Era

Markdown is not just a formatting syntax. It represents a philosophy of digital independence, data portability, and long-term accessibility that aligns with the core principles of privacy and user...

🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/markdown-sense/

@daringfireball
@gruber

#ArtificialIntelligence #KnowledgeManagement #DigitalSovereignty #DataPortability #DigitalRights

📝 Markdown: From 2004 to the AI Era

Markdown is not just a formatting syntax. It represents a philosophy of digital independence, data portability, and long-term accessibility that aligns with the core principles of privacy and user...

🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/markdown-sense/

@daringfireball
@gruber

#ArtificialIntelligence #KnowledgeManagement #DigitalSovereignty #DataPortability #DigitalRights

Apple e Google semplificano il passaggio tra iPhone e Android grazie al DMA dell'UE, offrendo trasferimento dati completo e wireless durante la configurazione.

📱🔄 #dma #dataportability #interoperability

Apple e Google semplificano il passaggio tra iPhone e Android grazie al DMA dell'UE, offrendo trasferimento dati completo e wireless durante la configurazione.

📱🔄 #dma #dataportability #interoperability

@ondra I'm not so sure about that (but also lack confirmation). The #DMA does not only mandate #DataPortability with other #gatekeepers but for "end users and third parties authorised by an end user, at their request and free of charge" (see Art. 6(9) and (10) DMA).

This sounds very much like an open standard or at least publicly documented #API to me.

@ondra I'm not so sure about that (but also lack confirmation). The #DMA does not only mandate #DataPortability with other #gatekeepers but for "end users and third parties authorised by an end user, at their request and free of charge" (see Art. 6(9) and (10) DMA).

This sounds very much like an open standard or at least publicly documented #API to me.

#Google and #Apple jointly work on enabling #DataPortability between devices to comply with the EU's #DigitalMarketsAct.

This is great!

Question is: Will this be an open standard that can be used by independent mobile operating systems like @murena's /e/OS, @GrapheneOS, or @LineageOS as well?

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/

#FOSS #Android #iOS #DMA #interoperability #portability

#Google and #Apple jointly work on enabling #DataPortability between devices to comply with the EU's #DigitalMarketsAct.

This is great!

Question is: Will this be an open standard that can be used by independent mobile operating systems like @murena's /e/OS, @GrapheneOS, or @LineageOS as well?

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/

#FOSS #Android #iOS #DMA #interoperability #portability

🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57fu7u00050bjj2skigzpn/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0%22

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#enshittification #release #dataportability

🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57fu7u00050bjj2skigzpn/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0%22

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#enshittification #release #dataportability

🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances

You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It works by "boosting" all your old posts (without flooding others' feeds with old activities).

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57she8000b0bju3osx89uy/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#dataportability #enshittification

🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances

You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It works by "boosting" all your old posts (without flooding others' feeds with old activities).

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57she8000b0bju3osx89uy/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#dataportability #enshittification

I’ve been doing some thinking on how the #fediverse, the #opensocialweb etc relate to other causes, like #privacy, or #dataportability, or #digitalsovereignty, even the #righttorepair. It appears that ultimately they all want similar things for the users of technology:

More Digital Freedom.

Some people have been using this term for a long time, I’m thinking of adopting it to describe the broader cause. Thoughts?

I’ve been doing some thinking on how the #fediverse, the #opensocialweb etc relate to other causes, like #privacy, or #dataportability, or #digitalsovereignty, even the #righttorepair. It appears that ultimately they all want similar things for the users of technology:

More Digital Freedom.

Some people have been using this term for a long time, I’m thinking of adopting it to describe the broader cause. Thoughts?

@andrewt was it #procrastination when you never expected to get to it? #pocket was a personal hope that someday you'd have the leisure time to read more deeply and ponder. Instead it became a reflexive permission to abandon items you once thought curious, alarming, important or useful.

Surprised #mozilla couldn't get @flipboard.com to adopt it. https://getpocket.com/export for #dataportability.

@andrewt was it #procrastination when you never expected to get to it? #pocket was a personal hope that someday you'd have the leisure time to read more deeply and ponder. Instead it became a reflexive permission to abandon items you once thought curious, alarming, important or useful.

Surprised #mozilla couldn't get @flipboard.com to adopt it. https://getpocket.com/export for #dataportability.

@GossiTheDog "Mastodon" really needs to get cracking on full data portability, IMHO.

It's a shame this hasn't been pushed higher up on the list of things to do.

I think many people have invested quite a bit of time and effort into their posts and profiles, and moving all that data, or somehow managing a switch-over doesn't seem to be that simple, if at all possible.

#mastodon #portability #dataportability #fediverse

@TheBreadmonkey My dude, that suuucks. My condolences... I hope you can get everything back. Also, WTF Evernote. "

But about #Obsidian, I think you're wrong about one thing. I'm using it on my Android phone and in the app I can switch between different vaults. (See screenshot) I am not paying for Services.

The fact that Obsidian is basically a bunch of text files is the main reason I use it as I can just copy everything over to another computer, import it into another app etc.

Instead of doing that manually though (which would be a drag and failure-prone) I have #Syncthing regularly sync all my notes to my laptop and my always-on #RaspberryPi. It works very well and is a huge burden off my chest. Let me know if you want some details...

#DataPortability #DigitalSovereignty

FEP-ef61 update: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/455

I added a couple of sentences clarifying FEP-ef61 design goals. In particular:

1. "This document describes web gateways, which use HTTP transport. However, the data model and authentication mechanism are transport-agnostic and other types of gateways could exist."

FEP-ef61 is designed to be compatible with any transport protocol, including the sneakernet. For example, it should be possible to replace web gateways with iroh nodes.

2. Location discovery using DID services. It came to my attention that some developers are trying to implement a variation of FEP-ef61 where gateways are specified in a DID document instead of an actor document. That significantly differs from existing FEP-ef61 implementations (Streams and Mitra), and has a serious practical disadvantage: it doesn't work with generative DID methods such as did:key. Support for pure key-based identities is important for several reasons:

- It is very useful for client-to-client (#p2p) communication without servers.
- Interoperability with other protocols that use public keys as identities. #Nostr is probably the most popular, but there are many more.
- It lowers the barriers to entry for client developers, who otherwise would need to deploy a did:web or something more complicated like did:webvh.

So, don't do that.

Also added a discussion section about media access control.

If media identifier only contains a digest, the gateway can't restrict access to it. This may not be a big problem because digest is very hard to guess, but an access control mechanism still might be useful. One way to implement it is to add an 'ap' identifier of a parent document to a hashlink and make it mandatory.

#fep_ef61 #NomadicIdentity #DataPortability

How can health and fitness #dataSilos still be legal? Whatever happen with the #GDPR’s #DataPortability requirement?
“Strava’s API debacle highlights the messiness of fitness data” — Victoria Song, The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/24303124/strava-fitness-data-wearables