@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.