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So I have quite a bit of bias, since I work on a specification in this area. So yes, if you want to make sure it's GNU Social (formerly StatusNet) compatible s

So I have quite a bit of bias, since I work on a specification in this area. So yes, if you want to make sure it's GNU Social (formerly StatusNet) compatible specifically, use OStatus, which is a number of protocols combined in a specific way. The most unfortunate part of all this though is that all these different applications, GNU Social, Diaspora, Pump.io, etc all speak different protocols and aren't all really interoperable. This leads to a "fractured federation", which really isn't great. I've been participating in the W3C Social Working Group to try to standardize federation. Here's our spec, ActivityPub: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ Some background: it's derivative of the "Pump API", which is sort of the successor of OStatus, in the sense that the primary author of StatusNet (now GNU Social) wrote the Pump API in response to some perceived shortcomings in OStatus. We've done a lot of analysis to make sure that the protocol can handle all the kinds of things that you expect from the "big player" social networks, but in a federated setting. Interested? Now's a great time to research and give feedback. We're looking to move to Candidate Recommendation status shortly, which means we're looking for feedback and implementations. PS: I'm also involved in MediaGoblin, and we definitely intend to implement there. If you're interested in a bit of news from that end, here's a moderately fresh blogpost, including info on how to give your feedback: http://mediagoblin.org/news/tpac-2016-and-review-activitypub.html http://mediagoblin.org/news/tpac-2016-and-review-activitypub... We're planning on using it for MediaGoblin.

staz 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- unimpressive 10y ago
  This comic may have singlehandedly done terrible damage to technology standards, by spreading the meme that trying to create a unified standard never works and nobody should try.
  - kwhitefoot 10y ago
    Anyone put off by a comic is clearly not suited to the hard slog that is required to get standards written, agreed, and implemented. So i think xkcd may be doing us all a favour by discouraging those who haven't got the stamina.
    - btym 10y ago
      It should be the test: "Could someone reasonably tease you with this comic? If yes, your standard is doomed."
  - clacke2 10y ago
    The lack of understanding of this comic has done more damage. Every person suggesting a new specification should have at least some idea of why people using the existing specifications would be interested in migrating, and how. I think ActivityPub has that to some extent, and the group reached out to existing fedsocnet implementations as part of their work. Time will tell if it was enough, or if we now indeed have yet another specification next to all the others.

staz 10y ago

https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/

unimpressive 10y ago
This comic may have singlehandedly done terrible damage to technology standards, by spreading the meme that trying to create a unified standard never works and nobody should try.
- kwhitefoot 10y ago
  Anyone put off by a comic is clearly not suited to the hard slog that is required to get standards written, agreed, and implemented. So i think xkcd may be doing us all a favour by discouraging those who haven't got the stamina.
  - btym 10y ago
    It should be the test: "Could someone reasonably tease you with this comic? If yes, your standard is doomed."
- clacke2 10y ago
  The lack of understanding of this comic has done more damage. Every person suggesting a new specification should have at least some idea of why people using the existing specifications would be interested in migrating, and how. I think ActivityPub has that to some extent, and the group reached out to existing fedsocnet implementations as part of their work. Time will tell if it was enough, or if we now indeed have yet another specification next to all the others.