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The mission of WordPress is to Democratize Publishing and the concept of data liberation speaks directly to this. People should be free to t
The walled gardens of social media proprietary web builders make it much harder for their users to take the content they created and own and do whatever they want with it. And that is why I’m so excited about WordPress’ Data Liberation Project.
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Moving Mastodon servers is liberating
I moved Mastodon servers to mastodon.social for no particular reason. But the fact you can move your following/followers list is one of the most liberating feelings I’ve had on social media. Data Liberation is a concept I’m super curious about.
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In this business, you can’t count on anything having longevity. To avoid new services that are likely to get shut down within a few years, you’d have to avoid every new tech product. Products and services lasting more than a few years are the exception, not the rule. And unfortunately for users, Google doesn’t owe anyone a “conversation” about what they do with their products. Companies can do whatever they want. They could shut down Gmail tomorrow if it made business sense. There wouldn’t be a conversation. ... Proprietary monocultures are so harmful because they hinder or prevent you from moving away. This is why it’s so important to keep as much of your data as possible in the most common, widespread, open-if-possible formats, in local files that you can move, copy, and back up yourself.3 And if you care about developing a long-lasting online audience or presence, you’re best served by owning your identity as much as possible. Investing too heavily in someone else’s proprietary system for too long rarely ends gracefully, but when it bites us, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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This may be the fastest post I've yet written for Discovery, mainly because I've been looking forward to writing it for years: Twitter will now let you download an archive of every tweet you've posted. It's a huge step forward for both personal remembrance and basic responsibility among Web services that are nothing without their users' contributions. You'll be downloading your archive too, right?
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Twitter has started to roll out an option to download an html file of all your tweets. The interface looks good! Now everyone gets to relive their painful early tweets about what they were eating that day!
Via TechCrunch.
Some OpenPaths news: in the last couple of weeks we've revamped the service and launched iPhone and Android applications — it's been exciting to hear about people using the platform again (OP on Twitter). Flowing data posts: "There are a lot of ways to collect your location, whether it's for journaling and personal reflection or for sharing with others, but it can be tricky making use of your data once it's stored behind company servers." OpenPaths is different.
Google Unifies Terms of Service and Privacy Policies
Google is going to update its terms of services and privacy policies on March 1st and to use this opportunity to streamline the terms. Right now, every Google service has its own terms of services and privacy policies. Starting on March 1st, all Google services will share the same terms of services and privacy policies except Google Chrome and Google Books. Google says that a user logged in to Google account will be treated with one policy across all Google services. Also, with this change, Google will be using the information you provide in one service on another service. So, for example, if you provide your phone number in Google Voice, this information can be used by Google to apply to your Gmail account.
I can already sense the outrage coming from Google service users. However, you need to realize that Google is not taking any additional information from you. They are simply using the information you have already provided with themselves in other services. And if all comes to worst that you are tired of Google gathering all these information about you, Google reiterates that it's dedicated to data liberation and you can take your information elsewhere and leave their services.
