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1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 12:31:48 EDT Verius
   @veg05 @mike As I understand it Mastodon is implementing a new W3C standard-in-development named ActivityPub as the way forward.
   
   GNU Social and it's relatives use an older protocol named OStatus. It may be that a version of GNU Social will be produced which speaks ActivityPub but that is not a guarantee that there will be interoperability with Mastodon since Mastodon has it's own interpretation of ActivityPub (in particular they don't support some stuff).
   
   And to make matters even more complex there are other decentralized web projects like Diaspora which sometimes speak their own protocol and sometimes use OStatus. Few projects use ActivityPub yet as it's only recently become something stable enough to target and most projects predate it.
   1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 12:45:35 EDT Michael Vogel

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      @verius @cajun Mastodon currently does support OStatus. There are contradictory statements from the Mastodon staff concerning the future of the OStatus support. At the beginning there was unclear how long they will keep supporting OStatus and it seemed like they wanted to end the support for it soon. But some days later it sounded like "no, we won't end supporting it".
      
      Current status is that Hubzilla is in the process of supporting it, Pleroma has prepared something as well. Here at Friendica we consider the beginning of the implementation - but we don't know when we will have time for it.
      
      For GNU Social I don't know the status.