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            @maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com I think GNU Social SHOULD change its client API to allow fully use advantages of its federation. Please read this discussion on a new API: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/419
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              @gargron btw, apart from TwitterAPI !GNUsocial has another client connection method called #AtomPub http://qttr.at/1jgr
              
              
              
             
 
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              @mcscx @gargron If I was constructing a new GS client, I'd target #AtomPub (with #OAuth) and ignore the #Twitter compatible API.
              
             
 
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              @maiyannah I think it would be overkill for us to invent some completely new API. From this position I see two main ways of current API improvement, and we can go both ways, implementing them separately: 1. Improvement of "Twitter” compatible API. The change that I propose is easily described and it may seem not that deep, but for some reason even @gargron, who, as I thought,…