The days of OStatus are numbered. The venerable protocol has served as a glue between many different types of servers since the early days of the Fediverse, connecting StatusNet (now GNU Social) to Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, and Pleroma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that many fediverse platforms support ActivityPub as a successor protocol, Mastodon appears to be drawing a line in the sand. In a Patreon update<\/a>, Eugen Rochko writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n ...OStatus...has overstayed its welcome in the code...and now that most of the network uses ActivityPub, it's time for it to go. <\/p>Eugen Rochko, Mastodon creator<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The pull request<\/a> to remove Pubsubhubbub and Salmon, two of the main components of OStatus, has already been merged into Mastodon's master branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some projects will be left in the dark as a side effect of this. GNU Social and PostActiv, for example, both only communicate using OStatus. While some discussion<\/a> exists regarding adopting ActivityPub for GNU Social, and a plugin is in development<\/a>, it hasn't been formally adopted yet. We just hope that the Free Software Foundation's instance<\/a> gets updated in time!<\/p>\n","summary":"One of the largest platforms in the federated social web is dropping the protocol that it started with.","attributedTo":"https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/actor\/-blog","url":"https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/2019\/07\/mastodon-drops-ostatus\/","to":["https:\/\/www.w3.org\/ns\/activitystreams#Public","https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/actor\/-blog\/followers"],"id":"https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/object\/85810","likes":"https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/object\/85810\/likes","shares":"https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/object\/85810\/shares"},"to":["https:\/\/www.w3.org\/ns\/activitystreams#Public","https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/actor\/-blog\/followers"],"id":"https:\/\/wedistribute.org\/wp-json\/pterotype\/v1\/object\/85809"}