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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2016 16:34:42 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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   • Bastian Ilso
   @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).
   • Bastian Ilso (bastianilso)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2016 15:59:24 EST Bastian Ilso

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     does !gnusocial support importing accounts? (eg. from one you exported/backed up)
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2016 16:25:47 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Bastian Ilso
     @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)
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2016 16:42:33 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Bastian Ilso
     @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 com…
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