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1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 21:04:33 UTC Danyl Strype
   Set out to write 'A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’ on #disintermedia blog. It got long
   http://qttr.at/1rd1
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2017 05:50:58 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @strypey Thanks for writing it!
     
     A few points:
     
      - OStatus and pump.io both use ActivityStreams objects to describe actions. pump.io the software uses pump.io the protocol.
      - Zot, or Zot2, or whatever one would like to call it, is what became the protocol for Hubzilla.
      - OpenMicroBlogging, the direct predecessor of OStatus, used XMPP. I haven't seen a rationale for why Evan left it. I'm guessing the wish to be more webby, and the fact that PubSubHubBub seemed to be the Next Big Thing in disintermediation and real time search. BuddyCloud uses XMPP to this day, as does Movim.
      - For concrete info on what the Matrix is (one can be told what the Matrix is!), check out my HPR episode http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2169 .
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2017 13:54:43 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @clacke let me get this clear. Identica always used ActivityStreams and still does?
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2017 17:35:23 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @strypey Here's a cool piece of spec archeology:
     
     https://gitorious.org/ostatus/ostatus.git/
     
     No, #OpenMicroBlogging (which identica (laconica) originally used) did not use #ActivityStreams, but #OStatus did from the very beginning.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2017 03:10:32 UTC Danyl Strype

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     @clacke is "PubSub" same thing as "PubSubHubBub"? This piece seems to be saying that PubSub uses XMPP? More confused ;)
     http://qttr.at/1rh1
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2017 06:44:14 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @strypey No. :-)
     
     PubSub is an extension to XMPP, allowing an XMPP entity to register as interested in a topic and receive broadcasts on that topic.
     
     https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html
     
     PubSubHubbub is now thankfully renamed to WebSub and is a way to register an HTTP endpoint for receiving push notices about changes to a web resource.
     
     https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2017 09:20:42 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @strypey The commit for "OpenMicroBlogging 0.9" is from the end of 2010, but I think OStatus actually happened maybe as early as the end of 2009, it was just that nobody wrote it down as a specification, it was just the laconica implementation.
     
     OMB really wasn't long-lived.