Drop OStatus?

[snarfed]

Bridgy Fed currently supports both ActivityPub and OStatus, but AP seems to be the future, OStatus the past. Do any meaningful fediverse implementations still use OStatus? Should we drop it?

Supporting both doesn't cost much maintenance, and it wouldn't be a big win to drop OStatus, but no sense in keeping the code around if it's unused.

[aciccarello]

I'm not active in these communities but judging from the projects listed on wikipedia the most significant ostatus implementations have all enabled ActivityPub

• gnusocial (supports ActivityPub)
• frendica (supports ActivityPub)
• Pleroma (supports ActivityPub)
• hubzilla (appears ActivityPub is supported though not central to project (uses Zot)
• postActiv (abandoned?)

[aciccarello]

Some interesting stats from https://the-federation.info/protocol/ostatus

Nodes: 528
Users: 215783
Last 6 months users: 16129
Last month users: 6827
Posts: 19537041
Comments: 523717

Looks like most activity is on mastodon (old servers), frendica, and gnusocial. Also a few hubzilla, pleroma, and even some wordpress sites.

[snarfed]

No OStatus activity on Bridgy Fed in the last month, so I'm calling it. 🫡 OStatus!