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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2017 12:21:14 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @algernon @szbalint Incomplete overview, corrections welcome:

   OStatus:
   - Long-established, designed originally by Evan Prodromou & co. for StatusNet (which is now GNU Social)
   - mostly aimed at public-centric social sites
   - a "meta-protocol" which is more about tying together mutliple existing protocols than being its own protocol
   - about 10 years old at this point?
   - Atom and ActivityStreams XML as its format

   1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2017 12:24:31 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber

      in reply to

      @szbalint @algernon
      ActivityPub:
      - Fresh off the standards press (in fact still going through final stages). Started also by Evan Prodromou to address perceived shortcomings of OStatus
      - public and private ("direct to inbox") delivery, uses email-style addressing
      - handles the federation protocol itself, but relies on ActivityStreams for vocabulary and json-ld for serialization
      - publicly a JSON system, sekretly a linked data system