On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Toby Inkster <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Lastly, I think it would be nice for this to be possible just for
> architectural reasons: StatusNet is supposed to be about decentralising
> microblogging; accounts shouldn't be tied to a single server.


Yeah, I agree.

It seems to me that using the PubSubHubBub (PuSH) approach would work — and
would follow what's emerging in the industry as a reasonable mechanism to
achieve this cross-posting situation that you're describing. Metaphorically,
we'd end up with something more like this:

ln -s [email protected] [email protected]

In other words, creating equivalency between two nodes/users in two separate
services.
I think it's important and useful to use the email-style identifier format
in this situation, even though both could be expanded to their URL
equivalents (http://status.net/chris and http://twitter.com/chris).

I would worry about creating confusion, however — if people discovered one
or the other accounts and began replying to either one. Would their
comments/replies need to be synced across contexts as well?

Chris

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