[$] The Data Transfer Project

Social networks are typically walled gardens; users of a service caninteract with other users and their content, but cannot see or interactwith data stored in competing services. Beyond that, though, these walledgardens have generally made it difficult or impossible to decide to switchto a competitor-all of the user's data is locked into a particular site. Overtime, that has been changing to some extent, but a new project has thepotential to make it straightforward to switch to a new service withoutlosing everything. The DataTransfer Project (DTP) is a collaborative project between several internetheavyweights that wants to "create an open-source, service-to-servicedata portability platform".