Who’s actually behind the Data Transfer Project? According to its homepage it’s Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter. Seems like maybe it’s a noble effort from a few devs from within those orgs, but not actually genuinely supported by any of them at a corporate level.

Because it’s been going since 2017 and with the combined finances and skillsets of these orgs they could have easily figured out data portability, if they really cared.

https://datatransferproject.dev/

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