GNU social

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GNU social
GNU-social-logo.svg
GNU social web frontend with Swedish localization.png
Screenshot of a GNU social website with Swedish localization.
Original author(s) Evan Prodromou
Developer(s) Evan Prodromou, Matt Lee, Mikael Nordfeldth and GNU social Developers
Stable release 1.1.2[1] / October 25, 2014 (2014-10-25)
Preview release git
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in More than 25 languages.[2]
Type Web application framework
License GNU Affero General Public License[3]
Website gnu.io/social/

GNU social (previously known as StatusNet and once known as Laconica[4]) is a free and open source software microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, GNU social seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data.[5][6]

GNU social has been deployed on hundreds of interoperating servers.[7]

Features

Standard features

  • Publish updates via an XMPP/Jabber client[8]
  • OpenID provider and authentication
  • Federation support via the OStatus protocol
  • A Twitter-compatible API
  • Categorization using hashtags
  • Groups, using bangtags
  • Localization and translations of UI (using Gettext)
  • Automatic, self-hosted URL-shortening
  • Attachments (add files, images, video, audio to dents)
  • Attached media files available in podcast format
  • Embedding of content from other sites, like YouTube, Flickr, etc.

Available features

History

GNU social was spun out of the GNU FM project. The founder was Matt Lee and the early developers were fellow FSF employees, Donald Robertson and Deborah Nicholson.

StatusNet deployment based on the formerly known as Laconica was the Identi.ca open-microblogging service. Hosted by original StatusNet creators StatusNet Inc., Identi.ca offered free accounts to the public and serves as the co-flagship (along with freelish.us) for the installable version of StatusNet. The site has migrated to pump.io.

Version 0.9.0, released March 3, 2010, added support for OStatus, a new distributed update standard superseding OpenMicroBlogging.[12][13]

June 8, 2013 it was announced StatusNet would be merged into the GNU social project, along with Free Social.[14]

The service is interoperable with the federated social network Mastodon and other OStatus platforms.[15]

Names

StatusNet was renamed from Laconica coinciding with the release of version 0.8.1 (a.k.a. "Second Guessing") of the StatusNet software.[16]

StatusNet's name "simply reflects what our software does: send status updates into your social network."[4]

Laconica's name was a reference to the Laconic phrase, a particularly concise or terse statement the likes of which are famously attributed to the leaders of Sparta (Laconia being the Greek region containing Sparta). In microblogging, all messages are forced to be very short due to the ~140 character tradition on message size, thus they are all de facto laconic phrases.

The GNU in the name refers to the GNU Project.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Laconica is now StatusNet Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., retrieved 2009-10-04
  5. ↑ Terdiman, Daniel (2008-10-6) Taking on Twitter with open-source software, CNet. Retrieved 2009-1-3.
  6. ↑ Bastien, Malcolm (2008-8-28) Why Laconica Means Big Things For Corporate Micro Blogging Archived 2009-01-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2009-1-3.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/#Mobile_Clients
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ StatusNet 0.9.0 Archived 2012-07-17 at archive.today
  13. ↑ StatusNet 0.9.0 Released Archived 2012-07-20 at archive.today
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ StatusNet 0.8.1 (2009-8-28) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., StatusNet Wiki Retrieved 2009-8-29.

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