Federation Addons
Various web communities have started to join together using common protocols. The protocols involved are somewhat limited in their possibilities. The Diaspora protocol is somewhat restrictive in terms of the types of communication allowed. All comments must be signed by the original author in a very unique way. The ActivityPub protocol is also supported. No other existing protocol supports nomadic locations (there is now support for nomadic identities in ActivityPub) as used in this project. This poses some challenges for support, as some features work with some networks and not with others. Nonetheless, federation protocols make it possible to connect to a much larger community of people worldwide. They are provided as add-ons.
- Diaspora Protocol - The Diaspora Protocol is used by Diaspora and Friendica. You should first enable ‘Diaspora Statistics’ to utilise all available features.
- PubCrawl - The ActivityPub protocol supported by Mastodon, MIsskey, Friendica and all Fediverse services.
Each member of your site must decide for themselves whether or not to allow these protocols, as they may conflict with some desirable core features and capabilities of this software (such as channel migration and cloning). You do this on your ‘Settings -> Feature/Addon Settings’ page.