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Fediverse
The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi) is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as Federation (information technology), federation) using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia computer file, files and other data across the computer network, network. The term ''Fediverse'' is a portmanteau of ''federation'' and ''universe''. The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora (social network), Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of ''Fediverse'' that does not support ActivityPub. Design While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi) is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network. The term ''Fediverse'' is a portmanteau of ''federation'' and ''universe''. The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of ''Fediverse'' that does not support ActivityPub. Design While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the owner of the website, the decentralized structure of the Fediverse allows any individual or organiza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ActivityPub
ActivityPub is a Communication protocol, protocol and open standard for Decentralised system, decentralized Social networking service, social networking. It provides a Client–server model, client-to-server (C2S) API for creating and modifying content, as well as a Federation (information technology), federated Inter-server, server-to-server (S2S) protocol for delivering notifications and content to other servers. ActivityPub has become the main standard used in the fediverse, a popular network used for social networking that consists of software such as Mastodon (social network), Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. ActivityPub is considered to be an update to the ActivityPump protocol used in pump.io, and the official W3C repository for ActivityPub is identified as a fork of ActivityPump. The creation of a new standard for Distributed social network, decentralized social networking was prompted by the complexity of OStatus, the most commonly used protocol at the time. OStatus was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mastodon (social Network)
Mastodon is a free and open-source software platform for decentralized social networking with microblogging features similar to Twitter. It operates as a federated network of independently managed servers that communicate using the ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to interact across different instances within the Fediverse. Each Mastodon instance establishes its own moderation policies and content guidelines, distinguishing it from centrally controlled social media platforms. First released in 2016 by Eugen Rochko, Mastodon has positioned itself as an alternative to mainstream social media, particularly for users seeking decentralized, community-driven spaces. The platform has experienced multiple surges in adoption, most notably following the Twitter acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, as users sought alternatives to Twitter. It is part of a broader shift toward decentralized social networks, including Bluesky and Lemmy. Mastodon emphasizes user privacy and moderation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misskey
Misskey () is an open source, federated, social networking service created in 2014 by Japanese software engineer Eiji "syuilo" Shinoda. Misskey uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation, allowing users to interact between independent Misskey instances, and other ActivityPub compatible platforms. Misskey is generally considered to be part of the Fediverse. Despite being a decentralized service, Misskey is not philosophically opposed to centralization. The name Misskey comes from the lyrics of Brain Diver, a song by the Japanese singer May'n. History Misskey was initially developed as a BBS-style internet forum by high school student Eiji Shinoda in 2014. After introducing a timeline feature, Misskey gained popularity as the microblogging platform it is today. In 2018, Misskey added support for ActivityPub, becoming a federated social media platform. The flagship Misskey server, Misskey.io, was started on April 15, 2019. Misskey, alongside Mastodon and Bluesky, has recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemmy (social Network)
Lemmy is free and open-source, social news News aggregator, aggregation software for running Self-hosting (web services), self-hosted Internet forum, discussion forums. These hosts, known as "instances", communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol. History Lemmy was created by the user Dessalines on GitHub in February 2019 and licensed under the Affero General Public License. In a 2020 post, Lemmy's co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings (video game), Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motörhead, Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that." According to the Fediverse statistics website the-federation.info, there were less than 100 instances of Lemmy prior to June 2023, increasing to 1521 instances of Lemmy with a total of 66,000 monthly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diaspora (social Network)
Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called ''pods'') which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising. According to its developer, "our distributed design means no big corporation will ever control Diaspora." The project was founded by Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The group received crowdfunding in excess of $200,000 via ''Kickstarter''. A consumer alpha version was released on 23 November 2010. Diaspora software is licensed under the terms of GNU-AGPL-3.0. Its development is managed by the Diaspora Foundation, which is part of the Free Software Support Network (FSSN). The FSSN is in turn run by Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation (information Technology)
A federation is a group of computing or network providers agreeing upon standards of operation in a collective fashion. The most widely known example is the Internet, which is Federated around the Internet Protocol (IP) stack of protocols. Another, more visible, example is Email, where the common use of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), allows alice@example.com to communicate with bob@example.edu and eve@example.org although the software implementing each of these systems can be completely different. The term may be used when describing the inter-operation of two distinct, formerly disconnected, telecommunications networks that may have different internal structures. The term "federated cloud" refers to facilitating the interconnection of two or more geographically separate computing clouds. The term may also be used when groups attempt to delegate collective authority of development to prevent fragmentation. In a telecommunication interconnection, the internal '' mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decentralized Web
The decentralized web is a network of independent computers that provide secure, censorship-resistant access to information and services without relying on central servers or clouds, using decentralized computing. History and development Decentralized computing has a long theoretical and practical history in the design of robust systems. The internet itself was designed around principles of decentralization, allowing an unknown network of machines to be organically connected, addressed, and updated over time without a central administration. In the development of the internet, Web 1.0 is sometimes described as primarily static webpages with minimal interactivity; while Web 2.0 was described as the "read/write" web, with dynamic content and user interaction, including platforms like YouTube and the advent of smartphones which could easily capture and broadcast information from anywhere. The rise of cloud computing and large platforms that served the needs of Web 2.0 led to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OStatus
OStatus is an open standard for decentralized social networking, allowing users on one service to send and receive status updates with users from another. The standard describes how a suite of various standards, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebSub, Salmon, and WebFinger, can be used together, which enables different microblogging server implementations to communicate status updates between their users back-and-forth, in near real-time. History OStatus federation was first possible between servers running StatusNet, such as Status.net and Identi.ca, although Identi.ca later switched to pump.io. As of June 2013, a number of other microblogging applications and content management systems had announced that they intended to implement the standard. That same month, it was announced StatusNet would be merged into the GNU social project along with Free Social, a similar application itself forked from StatusNet. Following the first official release of GNU Social, a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Sexual Abuse Material
Child pornography (also abbreviated as CP, also called child porn or kiddie porn, and child sexual abuse material, known by the acronym CSAM (underscoring that children can not be deemed willing participants under law)), is erotic material that depicts persons under the designated age of majority. The precise characteristics of what constitutes child pornography varies by criminal jurisdiction. Child pornography is often produced through online solicitation, coercion and covert photographing. In some cases, sexual abuse (such as forcible rape) is involved during production. Pornographic pictures of minors are also often produced by children and teenagers themselves without the involvement of an adult. Images and videos are collected and shared by online sex offenders. Laws regarding child pornography generally include sexual images involving prepubescents, pubescent, or post-pubescent minors and computer-generated images that appear to involve them. Most possessors of child p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PhotoDNA
PhotoDNA is a proprietary image-identification and content filtering technology widely used by online service providers. History PhotoDNA was developed by Microsoft Research and Hany Farid, professor at Dartmouth College, beginning in 2009. From a database of known images and video files, it creates unique hashes to represent each image, which can then be used to identify other instances of those images. The hashing method initially relied on converting images into a black-and-white format, dividing them into squares, and quantifying the shading of the squares, did not employ facial recognition technology, nor could it identify a person or object in the image. The method sought to be resistant to alterations in the image, including resizing and minor color alterations. Since 2015, similar methods are used for individual video frames in video files. Microsoft donated the PhotoDNA technology to Project VIC, managed and supported by the International Centre for Missing & Exploi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
