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Avoid false claims of equivalence #14

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evanp opened this issue Jul 5, 2012 · 0 comments
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Avoid false claims of equivalence #14

evanp opened this issue Jul 5, 2012 · 0 comments

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evanp commented Jul 5, 2012

The Social Graph API had this whole graph model for showing who claimed to be whom and whether those claims were mutual and so on.

So if http://example.com/l4mer has a rel=me to http://twitter.com/justinbieber but not vice-versa, we keep that data, and don't automatically return http://example.com/l4mer if someone's asking about @JustinBieber.

Yeah, I know.

Anyway: I think we should only include equivalence (A = B) in these two cases:

  • Mutual rel=me links.
  • Data from trusted sources. People who've logged into Identi.ca with their Twitter or Facebook accounts, for example.

There are probably some other interesting things we should include (circular equivalence (A -> B, B -> C, C -> A) probably would be good, for example), but I'd like to keep it simple for now.

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