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Osada is an easy to use social network server of the blogging or "conversational" persuasion running over the ActivityPub protocol. There's a great deal of mature and proven functionality available as the underlying codebase has been developed since 2001 and part of the fediverse since 2010.
Events Groups/Forums Privacy groups File management Photo Albums WebDAV access and more...
There are several plugins/addons providing LDAP authentication, personal wikis, content filtering, "friend/acquaintance zoom control", Twitter/StatusNet API and much more.
Didier J. MARY The developers of Osada have recently announced to abandon this social network and focus their efforts on the zap social network and the zot protocol. zotlabs.com - Zap - Zot6 social networking
Didier J. MARY That's right, it's the same code base. I believe that Mike Macgirvin recently got tired of the whole ActivityPub situation and decided to abandon it and Osada with it.
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Osada is an easy to use social network server of the blogging or "conversational" persuasion running over the ActivityPub protocol. There's a great deal of mature and proven functionality available as the underlying codebase has been developed since 2001 and part of the fediverse since 2010.
ReplyDeleteEvents
Groups/Forums
Privacy groups
File management
Photo Albums
WebDAV access
and more...
There are several plugins/addons providing LDAP authentication, personal wikis, content filtering, "friend/acquaintance zoom control", Twitter/StatusNet API and much more.
zotlabs.com - Osada - ActivityPub and Zot6 social networking
Didier J. MARY The developers of Osada have recently announced to abandon this social network and focus their efforts on the zap social network and the zot protocol.
ReplyDeletezotlabs.com - Zap - Zot6 social networking
Eric Buijs What's fun is that the ZAP page shows screenshots from Osada ;-) Same underlying stuff...
ReplyDeleteList of public instances zap.macgirvin.com - Zap Developer
ReplyDeleteDidier J. MARY That's right, it's the same code base. I believe that Mike Macgirvin recently got tired of the whole ActivityPub situation and decided to abandon it and Osada with it.
ReplyDeleteEric Buijs Well, as ActivityPub is now a W3C project, it's become "unmanageable" from an independant POV... ;-)
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