GNU social (previously known as StatusNet and once known as Laconica) is a free and open source software microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, GNU social seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data.
GNU social has been deployed on hundreds of interoperating servers.
Video GNU social
Features
Standard features
- Publish updates via an XMPP/Jabber client
- OpenID provider and authentication
- Federation support via the OStatus protocol
- Subscriptions via PubSubHubbub
- Replies via the Salmon protocol
- Microformat semantic HTML of profiles and notices
- A Twitter-compatible API
- Categorization using hashtags
- Groups, using bangtags
- Localization and translations of UI (using Gettext)
- Automatic, self-hosted URL-shortening
- Attachments (add files, images, video, audio to dents)
- Attached media files available in podcast format
- Embedding of content from other sites, like YouTube, Flickr, etc.
Available features
- Webmention and Pingback communication with IndieWeb sites
- Geolocations and maps
- SMS updates and notifications
- Cross-posting to Twitter
- Live update of stream
Maps GNU social
History
The first deployment (known as Laconica) was the Identi.ca open-microblogging service. Hosted by original StatusNet creators StatusNet Inc., Identi.ca offered free accounts to the public and serves as the co-flagship (along with freelish.us) for the installable version of StatusNet. The site has migrated to pump.io.
Version 0.9.0, released March 3, 2010, added support for OStatus, a new distributed update standard superseding OpenMicroBlogging.
In December 2012, Evan Prodromou announced "a wind-down" of the status.net hosted service so he could concentrate on a new open source activity stream server, pump.io. Consequently, Identi.ca would also be changed to pump.io. All in the last year before May 1, 2013 active accounts would be migrated. On July 10, 2013 Identi.ca switched over to running pump.io.
June 8, 2013 it was announced StatusNet would be merged into the GNU social project, along with Free Social.
The service is interoperable with the federated social network Mastodon and other OStatus platforms.
Names
StatusNet was renamed from Laconica coinciding with the release of version 0.8.1 (a.k.a. "Second Guessing") of the StatusNet software.
StatusNet's name "simply reflects what our software does: send status updates into your social network."
Laconica's name was a reference to the Laconic phrase, a particularly concise or terse statement the likes of which are famously attributed to the leaders of Sparta (Laconia being the Greek region containing Sparta). In microblogging, all messages are forced to be very short due to the ~140 character tradition on message size, thus they are all de facto laconic phrases.
See also
- Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
- Comparison of microblogging services
References
External links
- www.fediverse.org Overview of current GNU social instances
- www.gnu.io/social Official website
- Old Status.Net wiki[Web Archive]
- Building a Better Twitter: A Study of the Twitter Alternatives GNU Social, Quitter, rstat.us, and Twister
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