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{{Internal Link |target=Moving instances |link-name=Moving instances}} was implemented as far as that was possible so that people could relocate to elsewhere when the shutdown of their home node had been announced, but this would be of no help in the case of a sudden shutdown. Even full account backups weren't a remedy if they weren't made in the first place. | {{Internal Link |target=Moving instances |link-name=Moving instances}} was implemented as far as that was possible so that people could relocate to elsewhere when the shutdown of their home node had been announced, but this would be of no help in the case of a sudden shutdown. Even full account backups weren't a remedy if they weren't made in the first place. | ||
Macgirvin decided that the only way to secure people's online identity was for it to exist on multiple independent servers. Thus, the idea of nomadic identity was born. However, this was impossible to implement on Friendika with its {{Internal | Macgirvin decided that the only way to secure people's online identity was for it to exist on multiple independent servers. Thus, the idea of nomadic identity was born. However, this was impossible to implement on Friendika with its {{Internal link |target=DFRN |link-name=DFRN}} protocol. So Macgirvin started designing a whole new protocol named {{Internal link |target=Zot and Nomad |link-name=Zot}}. In 2012, he handed the development of what was now known as Friendica over to the community and forked it into what would become {{Internal link |target=What is the Red Matrix? |link-name=the Red Matrix}} and, in 2015, evolve into Hubzilla. | ||
== What it does == | == What it does == | ||