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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I know #DataPortability seems like a win for the consumer. And it can be, so long as the cloud computing oligopoly aren't the ones writing the spec. But they are. They have.

Google and Meta need the "open web" so that AWS customers can port themselves over to their respective future offerings.

Once the power shifts, #Google and #Meta will change the rules again. This story is as old as time.

Stop entering into good faith negotiations with the scorpion.

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• Illustration of a frog with a scorpion on its back, both characters are anthropomorphized with the scorpion standing upright. Text overlay reads, "I have decided to enter into good faith negotiations with the scorpion."