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Notability

How is this notable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.192.112.113 (talk) 14:08, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The StatusNet software is open source, freely downloadable and deployable under the GNU Affero General Public License. This sets it apart from other microblogging –-- and indeed, most other social networking --- services. yoyo (talk) 17:49, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Number of sites

We have >12,000 sites on status.net cloud hosting, plus another 2K sites on the public web. --ESP (talk) 01:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

StatusNet 1.0.0

We've released our 1.0.0 version.

http://status.net/2011/09/30/statusnet-1-0-0-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine

-ESP (talk) 20:01, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Quitter (social network)

Quitter (social network) redirects here, but isn't mentioned anywhere in the article (save the title of an external link), so the reader who searches for it is left none the wiser as to what it is. Said link describes Quitter as "a specific installation of GNU social", so adding a mention seems reasonable, but I know nothing about the subject(s). Can a mention be added to make the redirect useful? – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:33, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Archive download

There is no archive download option. What may be the reason?. But it is excellent choice for bloggers. B947106 (talk) 14:08, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal: Un-merge StatusNet and GNU social pages

The original article for StatusNet was merged into the article for its successor project GNU social. I propose reversing this decsion, and re-establishing a separate StatusNet article. Here's my logic;

1) The fediverse is now a highly notable topic, due to all the media attention it's received since the change of ownership at Titter (now Xitter).

2) That means the history of the fediverse is a highly notable topic, and pages about key projects in that history are notable-by-association. As well as often being covered themselves in the business press, tech publications, academic papers, and so on.

3) Both StatusNet and GNU social are key projects in that history. Yes, GNU social began as a fork of the StatusNet code, and became the dominant fork after Evan moved on to working on pump.io and its Pump API (the precursor to ActivityPub). But these were 2 distinct projects, run by completely different groups of people, working within 2 completely different organisations; VC-funded StatusNet, and the GNU Project. They're significant to fediverse history in different ways, and deserve their own articles.

If there are no objections, I could start a new stub, link its talk page back here, and vice-versa. But if the original page could be restore, with its history intact, that would save a lot of work. Danylstrype (talk) 14:42, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a good idea, on the topic of the original StatusNet page though it looks like the GNU social page was the original StatusNet page, but renamed to GNU social after the merger. LemurianPatriot (talk) 13:48, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This page needs un-pruning

This article has been pruned to within an inch of its life. It began as two articles, one StatusNet and GNU social (maybe 3 if Laconica had its own article?), both with significant amounts of information about fediverse history. Not only details about the software projects themselves (accurate initial release dates etc), but also the people involved, other organisations they cooperated with on the software, what they were trying to achieve and so on. There were significant numbers of third-party sources in earlier versions of both articles. Given the increased notability of the fediverse, as mentioned in the proposal to un-merge, this page needs to be restored somewhat, regardless of the outcome of discussion about the un-merge proposal. Danylstrype (talk) 14:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've started by rewriting the existing history section, to remove the obvious inaccuracies, and get the whole thing into a more sensible order. But so far there's really only the history of the precursor software, StatusNet, hardly anything about GNU social itself, or its history of ongoing development and use. Apparently there are still commits being made to the project, and servers running it, so the reports of its demise in the lede are somewhat exaggerated, and also need correction. Danylstrype (talk) 16:28, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Defunct?

As of Tuesday, August 27, 2024, there are no public servers listed on https://gnusocial.network/try/ or https://the-federation.info/nodes —Hobart (talk) 17:00, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the lists are just broken, https://gnusocial.net is still online and fedidb.org reports a number of servers. LemurianPatriot (talk) 19:57, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]