Portability

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Contact graphs that cannot move cleanly between services | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A list of contacts can be exported, but the living relationship graph around those contacts—groups, permissions, memberships, mutual connections, and active conversations—often cannot simply be recreated elsewhere.

Data export tools that technically exist but produce impractical migrations | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Google Takeout demonstrates the difference between receiving a copy of your data and being able to move that data into another service with its structure and context intact.