Pump.io

pump.io
Original author(s)Evan Prodromou et al.
Developer(s)E14N
Initial releaseOctober 3, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-10-03)[1]
Final release
5.1.4[2][3] / 18 September 2020; 4 years ago (2020-09-18)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/pump-io/pump.io
Written inJavaScript (Node.js)
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeb application framework
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitepump.io

pump.io is a software package containing a social networking service and communication protocol that can be used as a federated social network.[2] Started by Evan Prodromou, it is a follow-up to his previous microblogging software StatusNet (later merged into GNU social) and its OStatus protocol. It is designed to be more lightweight and usable for general activity streams instead of the predecessor's focus on microblogging timelines, with its goal being to achieve "most of what people want from a social network".[4]

Development of the software started in September 2011,[5] with an initial version being released on October 3, 2012. identi.ca, the largest StatusNet instance at the time (which was also ran by Prodromou), converted to pump.io in June 2013.[6]

While never becoming as popular as its predecessor, the ActivityPump protocol that was designed for it was later used as a template for the creation and standardization of the ActivityPub standard, and development of pump.io has since been discontinued, with the latest version of the engine being released in 2020 and further development concluding by 2022.[7]

  1. ^ "Release v0.1.0 · pump-io/pump.io". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  2. ^ a b "pump.io". pump.io.
  3. ^ "Releases · pump-io/pump.io". Github. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
  4. ^ Behrenshausen, Bryan. "pump.io: the decentralized social network that's really fun". opensource.com. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  5. ^ "GitHub - pump-io/pump.io at 2639acf774b3c6835cf81b88b807e40ea4a75c01". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  6. ^ Nathan Willis (March 27, 2013). "StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io". LWN.net. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  7. ^ "Commits · pump-io/pump.io". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-04-04.