Pump.io

Pump.io (pronounced "pump eye-oh")[4] is a general purpose activity streams engine that can be used as a federated social networking protocol which "does most of what people really want from a social network".[1] Started by Evan Prodromou, it is a follow up to StatusNet;[5] Identi.ca, which was the largest StatusNet service, switched to pump.io in June 2013.[6]

pump.io
Original author(s)Evan Prodromou
Developer(s)E14N
Stable release
5.1.4[1][2] / 18 September 2020 (2020-09-18)
Repository
Written inJavaScript / Node.js
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeb application framework
LicenseApache License, Version 2.0[3]
Websitepump.io

Technology

Designed to be much more lightweight and efficient than its StatusNet predecessor,[5] Pump.io is written in Node.js and uses Activity Streams as the format for commands and to transfer data via a simple REST inbox API.[6]

Pump.io requires:

Pump.io can run easily on low-resource hardware (such as a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black). It can be used via the Web UI, or other clients via the API.

Federation

As a distributed social network, Pump.io is not tied to a single site. Users across servers can subscribe to each other, and if one or more individual nodes go offline the rest of the network remains intact.

Limitations and issues

Features that were present in StatusNet are still (as of October 2017) not implemented in Pump.io, such as Groups,[7] hashtags,[8] and page listing popular posts.[9]

Standardization

The W3C Federated Social Web Working Group, launched in July 2014,[10] has produced the ActivityPub standard, based on the protocols used in pump.io as a likely successor to OStatus.[11] It was officially published as a Recommendation on 23 January 2018.[12]

See also

References
  1. "pump.io". pump.io.
  2. "Releases ยท pump-io/pump.io". Github. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
  3. "website". Retrieved 2014-03-22. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")...
  4. Prodromou, Evan. "E14N Post". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  5. Behrenshausen, Bryan. "pump.io: the decentralized social network that's really fun". opensource.com. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  6. Nathan Willis (March 27, 2013). "StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io". LWN.net. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  7. "Groups". Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  8. "Automatically link hash tags". Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  9. "Popular". Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  10. Shankland, Stephen. "Social networking built into the Web? W3C gives it a go". CNET.
  11. "Sandstorm And The Social Web". zenhack.net.
  12. "ActivityPub". www.w3.org.
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