realaravinth
/
fediparty-wiki
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Update uses of various federating (and some non federating) protocols

This commit is contained in:
Danyl Strype 2019-01-06 16:20:06 +00:00
parent 95d64e08f2
commit 39bb8faa15
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

8
uses-of-various-federating-(and-some-non-federating)-protocols.md
View File

@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
This protocol summary was originally put together by Strypey on the [Ind.ie GitLab server](https://source.ind.ie/project/heartbeat-cocoa/issues/194#note_10161), and was first put up here in issue #11.
Tent is dead, and OStatus is in the process of being superseded by ActivityPub, probably by the end of 2018. Depending on what kind of interaction you want to federate, the actively used protocols are:
Tent is dead ([last commit on Tent code was in 2016](https://github.com/tent)), and OStatus is in the process of being superseded by ActivityPub, probably by the end of 2018. Depending on what kind of interaction you want to federate, the actively used protocols are:
- social network (private, asynchronous messaging): Diaspora protocol (as used internally by Diaspora, and implemented for inter-operation with them by Friendica, and Hubzilla), Zot (used internally by Hubzilla), email protocols!
- social network (private, asynchronous messaging): Diaspora protocol (as used internally by Diaspora, and implemented for inter-operation with them by Friendica, and Hubzilla), Zot (used internally by Hubzilla), email protocols! ActivityPub can support private messages in theory, but so far Mastodon and Pleroma are the only AP-supporting apps that allow private "Direct Messages", and it's unclear if this is compatible with the AP spec.
- social media (public, asynchronous messaging): ActivityPub (used internally by Mastodon, Pleroma, and implemented for inter-operation by Hubzilla, implementations underway for GNU Social, postActiv, Friendica, and pump.io), Diaspora protocol, Zot, and Micropub (micro.blog and IndieWeb sites)
- social media (public, asynchronous messaging): ActivityPub (used internally by Mastodon, Pleroma, and implemented for inter-operation by Hubzilla and Friendica, implementations underway for GNU Social, postActiv, and pump.io), Diaspora protocol, Zot, Micropub (micro.blog and IndieWeb sites).
- realtime chat (private): XMPP used mostly in desktop clients like Pidgin and Jitsi, but there are a few mobile clients (Conversations, Yaxim, Tigase, Xabber, Kontalk) and web clients (Let's Chat, Inverse/ Converse, Xabber), MUC (group chat room extension for XMPP)
- realtime chat (public): Matrix (Riot.im as used on Matrix.org and chat.disroot.org), IRC (as used on Freenode).
Some newer client devs are trying to make more Slack-a-like XMPP and IRC clients, but I suspect Matrix is better for this, and handles server-to-server federation in a more standardized way. There are even people trying to build social network web clients on XMPP (Mov.im, Libervia), but this requires a heavy stack, and challenges are created by the fact XMPP was not designed to be web native.
Some newer client devs are trying to make more Slack-a-like IRC clients, but I suspect Matrix might be better for this, as it handles server-to-server federation in a more standardized way. There are even people trying to build social network web clients on XMPP (Mov.im, Libervia). It's been suggested that this may create challenges, due to the fact XMPP was not designed to be web native, although the Matrix team have backed off from the claims on this they used to make in the [Matrix FAQ](https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-difference-between-matrix-and-xmpp%3F) (try using web.archive.org to compare this with what it said about XMPP a year ago).