OpenMicroBlogging is a deprecated communication protocol that allows different microblogging services to interoperate with each other. It lets the user of one service subscribe to statuses from a user of another service. This enables the creation of a federation of new communities, as an individual or organization of any size can host a service that supports the protocol. OpenMicroBlogging utilizes the OAuth and Yadis protocols and does not depend on any central authority.
5-896: OpenMicroBlogging has been superseded by an enhanced version of it, OStatus . The original implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the Laconica software, which changed its name to StatusNet in August 2009. Identi.ca is the first service to support OpenMicroBlogging, and other sizeable services including Leo Laporte 's Twit Army were amongst those powered by the open source software . Since March 2009, one can search users' accounts in Twit Army from within Identi.ca. You could also subscribe to accounts at Twit Army from your Identi.ca account. A third-party implementation of
10-525: A number of other microblogging applications and content management systems had announced that they intended to implement the standard. That same month, it was announced StatusNet would be merged into the GNU social project along with Free Social, a similar application itself forked from StatusNet. Following the first official release of GNU Social, a number of microblogging sites running StatusNet and Free Social began to transition to it to receive new updates to
15-455: A suite of various standards, including Atom , Activity Streams , WebSub , Salmon , and WebFinger , can be used together, which enables different microblogging server implementations to communicate status updates between their users back-and-forth, in near real-time. OStatus federation was first possible between servers running StatusNet , such as Status.net and Identi.ca , although Identi.ca later switched to pump.io . As of June 2013,
20-473: The OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the OpenMicroBlogger software. Implementations: Services This computer networking article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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
25-469: The software. But frustrations with the technology underpinning GNU Social and its complexity led a number of new server packages that aimed to be compatible with GNU Social using OStatus to shift focus to ActivityPub , including Mastodon , Pleroma and postActiv, a fork of GNU social. In January 2012, a W3C Community Group was opened to maintain and further develop the OStatus standard. However, this
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