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does !gnusocial support importing accounts? (eg. from one you exported/backed up)
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@bastianilso In theory yes, in practice I wouldn't try it (buggy). It'd be nice to make sure it works for future versions but it's not a high priority. (microblogging is sort of a fleeting area of communication anyway)
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@drymer @mmn my concern is mostly with preserving who I follow, who follows me, my saved searches, what groups I joined.
To make it "theoretically" possible to migrate between servers, or triangulate your online presence (eg. link your profile across servers to ensure its availability), although the latter is probably not supported.-
@bastianilso Ah, subscribers wouldn't be preserved anyway in the backup method we have right now... But we have full #FOAF support! So that's a good place to start if you want to do any "triangulation" :)
Check out the Linked Open Data cloud for example: http://lod-cloud.net/ (the big section of #StatusNet accounts, that's us).-
@bastianilso Oh, you didn't mean that with "triangulation". Right. To answer that question, !GNUsocial is a _decentralised_ network, not distributed. It's sort of a direct inheritance from the standards we use to distribute data (it's just HTTP-accessible Atom feeds with some extra metadata to describe social activities). I think it's an important feature to remain compatible with your off-the-shelf news feed readers and parsing libraries.
The amount of issues arising with distributed vs. decentralised makes a good case to stick with the current networking model with each server having their own view of the network. A server on the network doesn't know of anything it hasn't been actively told by a third party or asked to look up via interactions of its users.-
@mmn thanks for the information, very insightful :)
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