| Communication protocol | |
 | |
| Purpose | Decentralized social networking |
|---|---|
| Influenced | ActivityPub |
| Website | www |
OStatus is an open standard for decentralized social networking, allowing users on one service to send and receive status updates with users from another.[1] The standard describes how a suite of various standards, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebSub, Salmon, and WebFinger,[2] can be used together, which enables different microblogging server implementations to communicate status updates between their users back-and-forth, in near real-time.
- ^ Jackson, Joab (28 July 2010). "Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL?". computerworld.com.
- ^ "StatusNet Cloud Service Opens To The Public – Black Web". Archived from the original on 19 May 2017.