LWN: Comments on "The Data Transfer Project"

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jchavezb — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:33:59 +0000

Added the feature request to our project issue list https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/issues/549

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ejr — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:51:03 +0000

No, they'll succeed just fine. And define the pieces that "cannot" translate, perpetuating lock-in while appearing all friendly.

We have zero traction. Well, maybe some small epsilon above zero, but the same. I have to deal with "public records" on slack, etc. History keeps repeating itself.

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flussence — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:46:12 +0000

This sounds like an attempt by the Corporate Web to embrace-extend-extinguish the growing federated web content movement, like they did with federated authentication attempts (OpenID), and federated IM (Jabber).

I doubt they'll succeed this time. The current movement's main selling point is that it knows these silos are rotten and explicitly *doesn't* interact with them. Web developers have learned from history.

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willy — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:57:30 +0000

The significant barrier for me between social media networks is Athlinks vs Strava vs Garmin. I don't know how much you've tried reaching out to those organizations.

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jchavezb — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:30:04 +0000

Hi Jake, long time reader, first time commenter :)

Thanks for such thorough coverage of the project! The project started out with a few of us from the Data Liberation Front and, luckily, grew beyond one team/service provider almost since the beginning. Your point on smaller services is correct and the project is actively working with and seeking entities of all sizes to participate. Thank you for putting our contact info for the project and we welcome feedback, suggestions, and, of course, patches!

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ejr — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:00:59 +0000

Hm, standard formats like Activity Pub ( https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ ) and Activity Streams ( http://activitystrea.ms/ )? *side-eye*

In academia we are savaged for not citing related work.