Re: Data Portability Report draft

A big step back for data portability was Mastodon going fully to client
side rendering and dropping Microformats support in 4.0.
Before that, it was relatively straightforward to recover post information
from the web sites and crawl archives.

On Thu, 14 Sept 2023, 20:14 James, <jamesg@jamesg.blog> wrote:

> Welcome to the group, Lisa! We will be discussing data portability and
> what we can do to advance portability and storage in the call on September
> 22nd.
>
> The meeting will be held on Jitsi, a video conferencing platform. The
> meeting URL is https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg. I should have announced
> this in the initial invitation email.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, September 14th, 2023 at 20:09, Lisa Dusseault <
> lisa@dtinit.org> wrote:
>
> Ohai! I guess this is a good time to speak up!
>
> I'm new to the role of CTO of DTI/dtinit.org and I'm still figuring out
> what my projects will be and what my job will entail, besides supporting
> DTI's policy work whenever tech expertise is needed. I'm in the midst of
> meeting with lots of people and building a good sense of what's going on
> and where there's the most potential to help. I have a background in Open
> Source as well as Open Standards (IETF), with more recent work experience
> in startups getting good stuff running on shoestring budgets.
>
> I've got the meeting sept 22 on my calendar now, just need to figure out
> how I'm supposed to join it,
>
> Lisa
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 4:22 AM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
> wrote:
>
>> So, I heard about this project at TPAC. Very interesting!
>>
>> https://dtinit.org/project
>>
>> Evan
>>
>> On Sept 13, 2023 12:08, Dmitri Zagidulin <dzagidulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Evan! Looking forward to it!
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 11:34 AM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
>> wrote:
>>
>> For today’s discussion of data portability, I started a draft report in
>> the ActivityPub repository:
>>
>> https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/data-portability-report.html
>>
>> I tried to list as much as possible what “your” data consists of on the
>> social web.
>>
>> I then cover the two existing data portability techniques:
>>
>>
>>    - Backup and restore with own domain
>>    - Mastodon-style Move
>>
>>
>> I know that some other implementations, such as Firefish and Friendica,
>> have more detailed data portability between their own instances. I’d love
>> to document those, also.
>>
>> I think this report, with deeper coverage, could be helpful to
>> implementers trying to support portability.
>>
>> I hope this is helpful input for our meeting today.
>>
>> Evan
>>
>>
>>
>