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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 the software. But frustrations with the technology underpinning GNU Social and its complexity led a number of new server packages
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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.
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Community Group was opened to maintain and further develop the OStatus standard. However, this was eclipsed by the work of the
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Federated Social Web Working Group, launched in July 2014. This working group focused on creating a newer standard, called
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with users from another. The standard describes how a suite of various standards, including
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that aimed to be compatible with GNU Social using OStatus to shift focus to
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Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
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OStatus federation was first possible between servers running
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Index

Communication protocol

Decentralized social networking
ActivityPub
www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
open standard
decentralized social networking
status updates
Atom
Activity Streams
WebSub
Salmon
WebFinger
users
StatusNet
Identi.ca
pump.io
microblogging
content management systems
ActivityPub
Mastodon
Pleroma
W3C
W3C
ActivityPub
pump.io
Friendica
GNU social
Mastodon
Pleroma

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