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[dalbasal]

"Consumer action," whether organized or individual has 0% chance of affecting what happens next here. It's all down to ip law and it's adjacents. No real reason to expect intentional actions here.

[taneq → dalbasal]

Consumers can stop consuming... ex-Twitter, or whatever we're calling it.

[dalbasal → taneq]

Twitter's quite easy to stop consuming... Easier than Google, Amazon, etc.

It doesn't matter though. It's not just a matter of lock in. There are other reasons.

For one thing, data isn't really data in private chunks. It's only valuable collected.

[Havoc → taneq]

Can but won’t

[rsync → dalbasal]

Is that true?

What if the consumer action was poisoning the dataset ?

[dalbasal → rsync]

Think of all the consumer action efforts, and (especially) talk on one hand. Think of the successes on the other... basically none but a few minor symbolic wins.