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by seba_dos1 2966 days ago
Rebuilding your social graph is easy - just import the roster and resend authorization requests as needed. The only inconvenience is a changed handle, so you have to point any potential new contacts to new JID.

Also, while it's not specified in XMPP (yet), it's easy to imagine a federated service that lets you connect to any server in the network that then behaves as a proxy to whatever server you have your account on.