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1. Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 19:41:46 UTC Eugen 💀

   If you wanna leave some kinda general feedback on 1.6, here is the Discourse thread: https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/mastodon-v1-6-0rc1/544

   Bug reports go on GitHub of course.

   Usually there's about a week's time between first RC and final release.

   • Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 19:50:59 UTC Eugen 💀

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     Since apparently nobody reads what I write, I'll reiterate some points about the protocol stuff, as I see wrong information being spread around.

     ActivityPub is a new W3C standard for federated messaging with better privacy support and more future-proofness.

     v1.6 of Mastodon implements ActivityPub for the first time, and "prefers" this protocol when it's available. However there is no change at all to how OStatus works in it.

     v2.0 will pull the switch on private toot federation over OStatus.

     ToniQ.es and rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk like this.
     rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk repeated this.
   • Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 19:53:09 UTC Eugen 💀

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     There is a long-term plan of removing OStatus support, as Mastodon has never been intended to be multi-protocol. This plan is not connected to any specific version or date. It's just a general direction. As most of the fediverse plans to switch to/support ActivityPub (e.g. Hubzilla, GNU social), I believe nobody's gonna miss OStatus.

   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 20:10:58 UTC vinzv

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     @gargron So, how long will it take until there's no OStatus support by Mastodon anymore? Read: how much time is left for GS et. al. to implement ActivityPub?
   • Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 20:15:24 UTC Eugen 💀

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     • vinzv

     @vinzv There's a third post after the one you replied to

   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 20:18:22 UTC vinzv

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     @gargron Ah, overread the "any specific version or date" part. Thx.