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1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 18:49:02 EST deutrino

   What is this I hear about Mastodon dropping the ability to federate with #ostatus instances? I am gonna be pissed if I can't interact with half the people I want to interact with all of a sudden. #fediverse

   1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 18:53:04 EST deutrino

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      I literally JUST made my first Masto account :|

   2. Professor Fischstörer (theoutrider@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 12:48:25 EST Professor Fischstörer

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      @deutrino tl;dr: OStatus doesn't have privacy functionality of any sort, so (at least the plan was) "private" statuses no longer federate to those, because an OStatus implementation would likely just treat them as public, show them on public timelines etc

      Mastodon instances, between themselves, continue to do this, because they've switched to communicating via ActivityPub (of which there are also other implementations out there)

      1. Professor Fischstörer (theoutrider@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 12:49:18 EST Professor Fischstörer

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         @deutrino while public statuses continue to federate to OStatus as they always have, and OStatus posts federate into Mastodon as they always have

         1. Professor Fischstörer (theoutrider@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 12:51:12 EST Professor Fischstörer

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            @deutrino it is literally just "this particular case is a really bad potential privacy leak when federating with OStatus so we *cannot* safely support it"

            1. Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 15:42:30 EST Oneesan succubus

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               @theoutrider @deutrino the privacy problem doesn't really have much to do with ostatus, but the way gargron implemented it in ostatus. Switching to activitipub solves it, but there are easy ways to solve it in ostatus as well.
               1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 15:44:50 EST deutrino

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                  @lain replying to tag @hyper @maiyannah on your response there since I dug that thread up based on one they were posting in.

                  1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 15:46:16 EST Annah

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                     @deutrino @lain @hyper Notice scopes have existed in GNU social since it was called StatusNet, everyone's just decided their version (that doesn't federate properly and is off-spec) is better.
   3. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 18:54:32 EST INACTIVE

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      @deutrino Past statements by @Gargron seem to indicate that they won't be phasing out OStatus support, but Mastodon instances will largely talk to each other using ActivityPub?

   4. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 15:36:25 EST deutrino

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      @hyper @maiyannah here's a quick chat I had with somebody about the potential of Mastodon dropping ostatus support