LIst of hubzilla hubs federating with diaspora

my house near the sea, Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:48:08 +0200

Working on this: https://start.hubzilla.org/wiki/jamie/LIst%2Bof%2Bhubzilla%2Bhubs%2Bfederating%2Bwith%2Bdiaspora/Home

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#federation #diaspora and #friendica (hubzilla uses diaspora protocol also for federation with friendica)

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giac hellvecio

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:52:55 +0200

I will add

Raphael Pallavicini

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:09:04 +0200

That's a GOOD new to read!
It would be nirvana also to federate with GNU Social/Mastodon. Then we can ask most of the people fed up by FB/G+/twitter censorship to move to free-as-in-freedom alternatives.
The question then will be: will the existing server be able to bear the load?

elmussol

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:22:31 +0200

@raphael Hubzilla does communicate with GNUSoc and Mastadon.

giac hellvecio

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:44:54 +0200

We can create also a list for federation with mastodon and gnusocial, but exactly which ( I need all ) addon/plugin is necessary for the 2?

Stephan Maus

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:11:01 +0200

„Gnusocial Protocol“, „Pub Crawl“ & „PubSubHubBub“.

giac hellvecio

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:15:22 +0200

So, we can/have to look for all the hubs that have all the 3?

giac hellvecio

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:26:14 +0200

Is it right to say: 'some mastodon site uses gnusocial (OStatus-compatible) protocol and some uses activitypub' ? What is the reality today?

Zachary Dunn

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:57:51 +0200

All updated mastodon instances use activitypub for federation between themselves and only use ostatus when federating to gnusocial instances. I'm not sure of the version where this switch happened, but instances not updated to that version would still use ostatus solely.

Raphael Pallavicini

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:06:40 +0200

If I understand https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/228 correctly activitypub is implemented by MediaGoblin....

My understanding is that:

    OStatus is a decentralized social networking protocol made up of several other protocols (Atom feeds, Activity Streams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, and WebFinger)
        GNU Social and Mastodon are two server software applications that implement OStatus
    pump.io API is an interface to the pump.io server software (Activity Streams, OAuth, Web Host Metadata)
        identi.ca is a pump.io instance (not accessible right now), GNU MediaGoblin is a server application that currently uses a pump-like API
    ActivityPub is a proposed decentralized social networking protocol
        GNU MediaGoblin is a server application that will likely implement ActivityPub

How do these protocols interoperate? Does ActivityPub completely replace OStatus, or only the Activity Streams component?

Thndr

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:34:36 +0200

AFIAK Mediagoblin did have a GSOC 2017 goal for ActivityPub but it doesn't look like it was worked on as the Savanna git's federation branch was last committed to 22 months ago.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mediagoblin.git/

I've been hoping for some interaction with ActivityPub, but at least since they use PostgreSQL at the very least the database itself can store JSON in the same format ActivityPub sends
It's just a matter of someone coding it.