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Is this a re-implementation of GNU social/OStatus in Rails? Nice work, I might have to kick the tires on this a bit. Folks at organizations you should start lo

by riffic 10y ago

Is this a re-implementation of GNU social/OStatus in Rails? Nice work, I might have to kick the tires on this a bit. Folks at organizations you should start looking at running your own social infrastructure in the same way you run your own email infra. An org such as a state agency would prefer to own its own namespace, a huge improvement over the status quo.

daveid 10y ago
Indeed! And I'm talking to some orgs about setting up their own instance for them :)
rektide 10y ago
For everyone's information: GNU Social/OStatus is also known as the Google Buzz protocol stack. Weird twist of history how GNU ended up covertly becoming this federated protocol stack.
- niftich 10y ago
  Can you elaborate or provide sources? AFAIK GNU social's current codebase is a merge [1] between StatusNet and Free Social, with StatusNet previously known as Laconica [2] and developed by the same people behind Identi.ca [3], which itself was later re-made into pump.io [4]. The OStatus protocol, which is one of the several protocols used in GNU social, originated from the OpenMicroBlogging spec [5] promoted by the Identi.ca developers. What's the Buzz connection? [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/social/merge.html https://www.gnu.org/software/social/merge.html [2] https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/commit/e3a53251c08ce5245f098bb37ca955016d9d57a0 https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/commit/e3a53251c08ce5245f0... [3] https://jason.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/control-yourself/ https://jason.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/control-yourself/ [4] https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/ https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/ [5] https://github.com/OStatus/omb-spec https://github.com/OStatus/omb-spec
  - rektide 10y ago
    OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates that references a suite of open protocols including Atom, Activity Streams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus Activity Streams is new, but the rest of these were all Google Buzz protocols. https://sites.google.com/a/going-buzz.com/tech/developers/underlying-protocols https://sites.google.com/a/going-buzz.com/tech/developers/un... As weird a twist of history as it was that GNU so readily adopted the Google Buzz protocol stack, it's far more bizarre how completely undocumented and unmentionable this legacy is. It's a pity that Salmon is an awful practically SOAP-like opaque envelope, because I rather like everything else here. But stuffing really good content inside a base64 envelope is really not ok with me and my expectation that casually working with a format shouldn't make me want to claw my eyes out.

by riffic 10y ago

daveid 10y ago

Indeed! And I'm talking to some orgs about setting up their own instance for them :)

rektide 10y ago

For everyone's information: GNU Social/OStatus is also known as the Google Buzz protocol stack. Weird twist of history how GNU ended up covertly becoming this federated protocol stack.

niftich 10y ago
Can you elaborate or provide sources? AFAIK GNU social's current codebase is a merge [1] between StatusNet and Free Social, with StatusNet previously known as Laconica [2] and developed by the same people behind Identi.ca [3], which itself was later re-made into pump.io [4]. The OStatus protocol, which is one of the several protocols used in GNU social, originated from the OpenMicroBlogging spec [5] promoted by the Identi.ca developers. What's the Buzz connection? [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/social/merge.html https://www.gnu.org/software/social/merge.html [2] https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/commit/e3a53251c08ce5245f098bb37ca955016d9d57a0 https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/commit/e3a53251c08ce5245f0... [3] https://jason.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/control-yourself/ https://jason.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/control-yourself/ [4] https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/ https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/ [5] https://github.com/OStatus/omb-spec https://github.com/OStatus/omb-spec
- rektide 10y ago
  OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates that references a suite of open protocols including Atom, Activity Streams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus Activity Streams is new, but the rest of these were all Google Buzz protocols. https://sites.google.com/a/going-buzz.com/tech/developers/underlying-protocols https://sites.google.com/a/going-buzz.com/tech/developers/un... As weird a twist of history as it was that GNU so readily adopted the Google Buzz protocol stack, it's far more bizarre how completely undocumented and unmentionable this legacy is. It's a pity that Salmon is an awful practically SOAP-like opaque envelope, because I rather like everything else here. But stuffing really good content inside a base64 envelope is really not ok with me and my expectation that casually working with a format shouldn't make me want to claw my eyes out.