OStatus

OStatus is an

status updates between their users

History

OStatus federation was first possible between

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

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)

References

^ Jackson, Joab (28 July 2010). "Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL?". computerworld.com.
^ "StatusNet Cloud Service Opens To The Public – Black Web". Archived from the original on 19 May 2017.
^ "Group Redent Plugin for Status.net / Identi.ca – Dave Hall Consulting". www.davehall.com.au.
^ "StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io [LWN.net]". lwn.net.
^ "Platforms – Federated Social Web Incubator Group". www.w3.org.
^ "Remove Salmon and PubSubHubbub by Gargron · Pull Request #11205 · tootsuite/mastodon". GitHub. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
^ Tilley, Sean (24 April 2018). "Blushy-Crushy Fediverse Idol: A Chat with Lain about Pleroma". medium.com.
^ OStatus Community Group W3C
^ "Social networking built into the Web? W3C gives it a go". cnet.com. 21 July 2014.
^ "Victory for libre networks: ActivityPub is now a W3C recommended standard — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software". www.fsf.org.
^ "Sandstorm And The Social Web". zenhack.net. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^ Tilley, Sean (10 October 2017). "Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin". medium.com.

External links

OStatus Wiki

[1] Jackson, Joab (28 July 2010). "Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL?". computerworld.com.

[2] "StatusNet Cloud Service Opens To The Public – Black Web". Archived from the original on 19 May 2017.

[3] "Group Redent Plugin for Status.net / Identi.ca – Dave Hall Consulting". www.davehall.com.au.

[4] "StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io [LWN.net]". lwn.net.

[5] "Platforms – Federated Social Web Incubator Group". www.w3.org.

[6] "Remove Salmon and PubSubHubbub by Gargron · Pull Request #11205 · tootsuite/mastodon". GitHub. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

[7] Tilley, Sean (24 April 2018). "Blushy-Crushy Fediverse Idol: A Chat with Lain about Pleroma". medium.com.

[8] OStatus Community Group W3C

[9] "Social networking built into the Web? W3C gives it a go". cnet.com. 21 July 2014.

[10] "Victory for libre networks: ActivityPub is now a W3C recommended standard — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software". www.fsf.org.

[11] "Sandstorm And The Social Web". zenhack.net. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

[12] Tilley, Sean (10 October 2017). "Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin". medium.com.

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