> If you can’t leave without losing something important, the platform has no incentives to respect you as a user.

To the uninformed, this line in @danabra.movdan's last article may seem like a dig at ActivityPub, but he actually nails it on the head: what we have now in the ActivityPub ecosystem is not full portability of account data, instead we have these monolithic applications which bundle our identity, data and interfaces for interacting with all that into one thing. You don't have choice of software, without loosing your data.

There is the ActivityPub Data Portability proposal, which is kind of a solution to portability for these monolithic apps, but what if it didn't have to be this way? What if your identity and data were separate from the applications you use?

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola