[grabanski]

Pushing companies like Facebook to implement data portability is a great thing, but these companies want to maintain copyright control and that is apparent by their actions.

Since it doesn't look like these companies will give up copyrights anytime soon, I chose to promote self-hosting with WordPress so heavily because it is one of the only proven and relatively easy methods I know that provides publishers with complete control over the content they produce. Millions and millions of articles have been kept in the rightful hands because of WordPress and similar open, self-hosted publishing tools.

I think more people will chose to self-host if they are aware of the consequences and it is easy for them to do, which WordPress is probably the best we have to promote for now.

Eventually I'd to promote a viable and open alternative to Facebook, but nothing like that exists yet.