OLolder·Jul 27, 2018
W3C maintains a list of implementations [1]. Not sure how up to date it is though.
[1] https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/implement...
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| Mar 19 | 2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 26 | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2 | 2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 9 | 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 16 | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 23 | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 30 | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7 | 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 14 | 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 21 | 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 28 | 2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 4 | 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 11 | 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 18 | 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 25 | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2 | 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9 | 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16 | 2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 23 | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI think the way forward is to embrace ActivityPub and similar endeavours. I'm not sure how much of Diaspora wound up on ActivityPub[0] / ActivitySteams[1] but I feel as though the best path forward for projects like Diaspora is to reach out to W3C to see what could be standardized.
ActivityPub I believe gives us enough metadata to have enough of a social site. Although it all started from GNUSocial (or whatever it was called) and similar open sourced twitter-like platforms, it doesn't necessarily mean we should be restricted to "micro" blogging by those platforms (besides, sharing pictures, and such is somewhat still valid "micro" blogging just look at Tumblr). If the limits are too much you could still at the very least send over a summary between hubs and if the person wants more info they can visit the originating site for the whole po
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I think the path forward is to use open and standardized formats / protocols. We have the technology... There's a couple of implementations for ActivityPub/ActivityStreams already[2], you could either join one and contribute or just start one yourself if none are in the language / license you prefer.
[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/
[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/
[2]: https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/implement...