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The cat is out of the bag. Mike Macgirvin's family of Fediverse server applications has a new member: Forte which he has forked off his own streams repository some three weeks ago.

The first announcement came in a comment on a post about Friendica with which everything had begun, just three days ago. The same day, the up-until-then still unannounced Forte repository was discovered. Unlike what's in the streams repository, Forte seems to have a name again, and Mike refers to it as a "project".

(streams), as its predecessor is colloquially being referred to, is already one of the most advanced and innovative server applications in the Fediverse. It has the most elaborate set of permission controls as of yet, even surpassing Hubzilla, the younger one of its surviving ancestors. Also, Mike uses it to develop the implementation of nomadic identity, his own invention from as early as 2011, purely via ActivityPub, including FEP-ef61. So (streams) itself is already a pioneering work, and its development is far from done.

And now we have Forte which promises to be even more advanced. There are no specs yet, much less any public instances. And even if it's the latest fork in 14 years of Fediverse development, I guess it's far from being ready for prime time. But seriously, it's a (streams) fork.

#Fediverse #NomadicIdentity #FEP_ef61 #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte

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[–] communio@katholisch.social 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

@jupiter_rowland

Wobei mich das etwas wundert. Vor 1 Monat konnte mein Routingproblem von KNT Host nicht gelöst werden und sie hatten u.a. sich mit Mike in Verbindung gesetzt. Gelöst wurde das Problem nicht. Ich finde das ja ganz smart, immer neue Software rauszuhauen, aber irgendwie finde ich den Abstand zu streams - angesichts dass streams nicht überall reibungslos läuft - zu gering. Manchmal ist es mehr, erstmal ein Projekt funktionsfähig zu bekommen, anstatt sich schon in das Nächste zu stürzen.

[–] hamiller_friendica@anonsys.net 0 points 4 weeks ago

@communio Die Entwicklung bei Streams wird ja nicht eingestellt. So wie ich das bisher verstanden habe, arbeitet Mike an beiden Projekten. Wird dann aber wahrscheinlich die Leitung bei Streams an jemand anders aus dem Projekt abgeben.

Nach diesem Muster ist er auch bei Friendica und Hubzilla vorgegangen.

@jupiter_rowland