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Re:Fediverse – Federated social networks running on free ope... by em3rgent0rdr on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:19AM (#16671028)
As long as the two services implement a shared protocol like ActivityPub [1], then yes they can communicate! For instance, both Mastodon and PeerTube (p2p youtube clone) implement ActivityPub, and so can communicate. And although according to [2], hubzilla doesn't appear to currently implement ActivityPub, however there is an intermediary "Bridgy Fed" [3] which can bridge between Mastodon and hubzilla.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ [2] https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/ [3] https://fed.brid.gy/

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Re:Fediverse – Federated social networks running on free ope... by synchronise on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:59AM (#16671110)
For what it's worth, Hubzilla is working on getting an ActivityPub API up soon.

They're also looking to implement OpenID2 so it can be used to log into websites just like Facebook currently can.

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Re:Fediverse – Federated social networks running on free ope... by zotlabs on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:37AM (#16695616)
ActivityPub has been supported in Hubzilla since around June/July 2017. It provides social communications in ActivityPub, Diaspora, OStatus, and Zot. It's designed primarily as a distributed content management and decentralised identity/privacy platform, whereas most of the other fediverse projects focus primarily on social networking.
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Re:Fediverse – Federated social networks running on free ope... by jug on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:16AM (#16671424)
I heard that things like hashtags aren’t federated though. I think it’s important to make especially posts findable across instances via hashtags.
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Re:Fediverse – Federated social networks running on free ope... by sp332 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:08PM (#16676060)
Wouldn't you have to connect to every instance on the planet and ask each one individually if they have public messages with those hashtags?
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