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 to a number of new server packages that aimed to be compatible with GNU Social using OStatus, 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.

See also

References
  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.
  12. Tilley, Sean (10 October 2017). "Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin". medium.com.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.