OStatus
OStatus is an open standard for federated microblogging, allowing users on one website to send and receive status updates with users on another website.[1] The standard describes how a suite of open protocols, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebSub, Salmon, and WebFinger,[2] can be used together, which enables different microblogging server implementations to route status updates between their users back-and-forth, in near real-time.
History
OStatus federation was first possible between StatusNet installations, such as Status.net and Identi.ca,[3] although Identi.ca later switched to pump.io.[4] As of June 2013, a number of other microblogging applications and content management systems had announced that they intended to implement the standard.[5] That same month, it was announced StatusNet would be merged into the GNU social project, along with Free Social.[16]
Following the first official release of GNU Social, a number of microblogging sites running StatusNet and Free Social began to transition to it. But frustrations with the technology underpinning GNU Social led a number of new server packages that aimed to be compatible with GNU Social using OStatus to shift focus to ActivityPub, including Mastodon (until October 2019),[6] Pleroma,[7] and postActiv.
Standards work
In January 2012, a W3C Community Group was opened to maintain and further develop the OStatus standard.[8] However, this was eclipsed by the work of the W3C Federated Social Web Working Group, launched in July 2014.[9] This working group focused on creating a newer standard, called ActivityPub, based on the protocols used in pump.io, which has been standardized as a successor to OStatus.[10][11]
Projects using OStatus
Current
Projects in active development using OStatus for federation.
- Friendica[12]
- GNU social (formerly StatusNet)
See also
- OpenMicroBlogging – older federated microblogging specification, to be superseded by OStatus.
- Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
- Comparison of microblogging and similar services
References
- ↑ Jackson, Joab (28 July 2010). "Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL?". http://www.computerworld.com/article/2519651/enterprise-applications/could-open-source-tools-make-facebook-the-next-aol-.html/.
- ↑ "StatusNet Cloud Service Opens To The Public – Black Web". https://www.blackweb20.com/2010/03/09/statusnet-cloud-service/.
- ↑ "Group Redent Plugin for Status.net / Identi.ca – Dave Hall Consulting". https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/dave/2010/02/20/group-redent-plugin-statusnet-identica.
- ↑ "StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io [LWN.net"]. https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/.
- ↑ "Platforms – Federated Social Web Incubator Group". https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Platforms.
- ↑ "Remove Salmon and PubSubHubbub by Gargron · Pull Request #11205 · tootsuite/mastodon" (in en). https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/11205.
- ↑ Tilley, Sean (24 April 2018). "Blushy-Crushy Fediverse Idol: A Chat with Lain about Pleroma". https://medium.com/we-distribute/blushy-crushy-fediverse-idol-a-chat-with-lain-about-pleroma-4ff578b99752.
- ↑ OStatus Community Group W3C
- ↑ "Social networking built into the Web? W3C gives it a go". 21 July 2014. https://www.cnet.com/news/w3c-tries-building-social-networking-into-the-web/.
- ↑ "Victory for libre networks: ActivityPub is now a W3C recommended standard — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software". https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/victory-for-libre-networks-activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommended-standard.
- ↑ "Sandstorm And The Social Web". https://zenhack.net/2016/05/29/sandstorm-and-the-social-web.html.
- ↑ Tilley, Sean (10 October 2017). "Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin". https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19.
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