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GNU social
Original author(s)Evan Prodromou
Developer(s)Evan Prodromou, Matt Lee, Mikael Nordfeldth and GNU social Developers
Stable release
1.1.2[1] / October 25, 2014 (2014-10-25)
Preview release
Repository
Written inPHP
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inMore than 25 languages.[2]
TypeWeb application framework
LicenseGNU Affero General Public License[3]
Websitegnu.io/social/

GNU social (previously known as StatusNet and once known as Laconica[4]) is a FOSS 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.[5][6]

Notable current deployments

GNU social has been deployed on hundreds of interoperating servers.[7] Notable public deployments are quitter.se, quitter.es, quitter.no, quitter.is and gnusocial.no.[8]

Features

Standard features

  • Publish updates via an XMPP/Jabber client[9]
  • OpenID provider and authentication
  • Federation support via the OStatus protocol
  • 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

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.[12][13]

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.[14] Consequently, Identi.ca will also be changed to pump.io. All in the last year before May 1, 2013 active accounts will be migrated.[15] On July 10, 2013 Identi.ca switched over to running pump.io.[16]

June 8, 2013 it was announced StatusNet would be merged into the GNU social project, along with Free Social.[17]

Names

StatusNet was renamed from Laconica coinciding with the release of version 0.8.1 (aka "Second Guessing") of the StatusNet software.[18]

StatusNet's name "simply reflects what our software does: send status updates into your social network."[4]

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 limit on message size, thus they are all de facto laconic phrases.

See also

References

  1. ^ Nordfeldth, Mikael (25 Oct 2014). "GNU social XSS vulnerability, version bumped to v1.1.2". social-discuss (Mailing list). Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  2. ^ "Translating:GNU social localization". Retrieved 2015-02-08.
  3. ^ "README file". Retrieved 2015-02-09. ...under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  4. ^ a b Laconica is now StatusNet [1], retrieved 2009-10-04
  5. ^ Terdiman, Daniel (2008-10-6) Taking on Twitter with open-source software, CNet. Retrieved 2009-1-3.
  6. ^ Bastien, Malcolm (2008-8-28) Why Laconica Means Big Things For Corporate Micro Blogging. Retrieved 2009-1-3.
  7. ^ List of independent GNU social servers
  8. ^ "Quitter.se" S-MAP the socialmedia alternatives project
  9. ^ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/#Mobile_Clients
  10. ^ https://indiewebcamp.com/GNU_social
  11. ^ https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/merge_requests/41
  12. ^ StatusNet 0.9.0
  13. ^ StatusNet 0.9.0 Released
  14. ^ http://status.net/2012/12/18/upcoming-changes-in-the-status-net-service
  15. ^ Evan Prodromou (2013-03-26). "Note by Evan Prodromou". Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  16. ^ Evan Prodromou (2013-07-10). "Note by Evan Prodromou". Retrieved 2013-07-11.
  17. ^ "GNU social". 2013-06-08.
  18. ^ StatusNet 0.8.1 (2009-8-28) [2], StatusNet Wiki Retrieved 2009-8-29.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to StatusNet.


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