The closest modern communications standard would be Matrix (which is why I can take what I have in Commet (client) and move it to Sable or FluffyChat (other clients) for instance, because they follow the same standard).

Centralized platforms do not deal with open standards because it literally goes against their premise - User retention via vendor lock-in. You can scrape to an extent, it won’t ever be perfect, and if everyone did it, it would get patched in some way to be limited.

This was always the Discord trap though - Discord is a treasure-trove of knowledge that’s now behind a walled garden thanks to “community leaders” who thought they understood the importance of community longevity. Many are scraping whatever they can moving from one walled-garden just to move to another - Make it make sense.

Because it may not be illegal today, but may become tomorrow. Even if not, it still becomes linked to your PII.

Late to the party, but worth resounding all the same. This exactly. My community’s corner of the internet, is very much seen as a cyber-fort of sorts, not just due to the sovereignty aspect, but as a safe space where the right to privacy is upheld. We started with on-boarding friends and friends of friends. But now? We’re on-boarding families. We’re exploring on-boarding smaller communities that cannot host their own infra.

Even if you’re in your 30’s or 40’s or potentially older, we take technology and the internet for granted - But so many seem to not realize how we have all the tools we need to take power back, to ensure, in a verifiable way, governments work for the people and not the other way around. We just need to take action. And that begins with us. The practitioners of technomancy. The Homelabbers. The Infra gurus. Heck, all the rebels. We need to build censorship-resistant, resilient infra that shows every person has the right to, and is able to, hold their own data and solely share it as, when and if they see fit.

When it comes to decentralization and sovereignty it’s easy to think every**one **should host their own data, and while this would be the ideal scenario, this is also much harder to achieve, and at that thought we arrive and face a brick-wall - In which case, it’s important to accept TRUST through COMMUNITY and VERIFIABLE software. Communities CAN build a trust-model to host others’ data as long as the individual is not willing. And this is ok, it’s a stepping stone towards the ideal.

In the end, the only real option is to opt-out of a system we can no longer in good conscious adhere to.

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