Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Follow-up: MFS Talk. Tues, 15 Nov. "Diaspora and Distributed/Federated Social Networking" by Ellie

[MJ Ray]

Sam Tuke <address@hidden>
> On Friday 18 November 2011 19:03:51 MJ Ray wrote: [migration and...]
> > How do I import my OStatus contacts into it?
> 
> I'm not certain, but I don't believe that this is currently possible. A 
> degree 
> of 'federation' is available with Friendika (see 
> http://diasporial.com/articles/federation-is-here) but afaik the ability to 
> import contacts via OStatus does not yet exist.

Thanks for the info.  I think import would be from the FOAF file like
http://identi.ca/mjray/foaf rather than over OStatus itself.

Until these services actually get export/import working, I suspect
that the benefits of federation won't be realised by many.  Currently
status.net posters to identi.ca are treated as second-class citizens,
harder for identizens to reply to because the status.net site hosting
the original notice can't see you're logged in at identi.ca.  The
wall-like page of diaspora or friendika could be a better model, but
it's too tedious to move my network to one of them. :-/

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