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OStatus

OStatus is an open standard for decentralized social networking, allowing users on one service to send and receive status updates with users from another. The standard describes how a suite of various standards, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebSub, Salmon, and WebFinger, can be used together, which enables different microblogging server…

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History

StatusNetIdenti.caPump.ioContent management systemsActivityPub
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Standards work

W3C
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Projects using OStatus

GNU socialFriendicaMastodon
3 related topics

Overview

Open standardDecentralized social networkingStatus updatesAtomActivity Streams
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Influenced
ActivityPub
Purpose
Decentralized social networking

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History

Standards work

  • W3C World Wide Web Consortium

Projects using OStatus

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OStatus

Nodes25
Edges24
Triples32
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.08
Components1

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OStatus

Top relations

related to history · 14
OStatus → ActivityPub, As, But, Following, Free Social, GNU, GNU Social, Identi, June, Mastodon, Pleroma, Status, StatusNet, That
related to Standards work · 8
OStatus → ActivityPub, However, In January, July, This, W3C Community Group, W3C Federated Social Web, Working Group
related to External links · 3
OStatus → March, OStatus Wiki Archived, Wayback Machine
see also · 3
OStatus → Comparison, Free, OpenMicroBlogging
Influenced · 1
OStatus → ActivityPub
Purpose · 1
OStatus → Decentralized social networking
Website · 1
OStatus → www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
is a · 1
OStatus → open standard for decentralized social networking

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Important terminology

social microblogging standard statusnet status updates users networking activitypub gnu standards decentralized number free software group receive including used server

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
OStatusInfluencedActivityPub1.00infobox
OStatusPurposeDecentralized social networking1.00infobox
OStatusWebsitewww.w3.org/community/ostatus/1.00infobox
OStatusis aopen standard for decentralized social networking0.90text
OStatusrelated to External linksOStatus Wiki Archived0.60section
OStatusrelated to External linksMarch0.60section
OStatusrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
OStatusrelated to historyStatusNet0.60section
OStatusrelated to historyStatus0.60section
OStatusrelated to historyIdenti0.60section
OStatusrelated to historyAs0.60section
OStatusrelated to historyJune0.60section

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