Comments

• habi

  December 2011

  >Isn't that just centralizing users to my site and the same thing as twitter and facebook?
  
  It is, but the beautiful thing is that several instances of StatusNet can interact with each other without problems. I have one instance installed only for me, another contact too, we're both interacting with people on identi.ca. Since there are also many users on parlementum.net we can speak with each other and are not bound to our single node.
• NickPfen

  December 2011

  Hi Habi,
  Thanks for the comment. How do you find and interact with other users or web platforms that are ostatus enabled from your own instance of status.net?
• march

  December 2011

  @NickPfen:
  what habi speaks about is called federation. see http://status.net/wiki/Federation
  
  to get started have a look at http://status.net/wiki/List_of_servers and start from there.
  
  have fun! :)
• kaberi

  December 2011

  http://status.net/wiki/Federation is rather insufficient.
  Can someone give some more example or docs?
  If I have installed status net script on my server abc dot com and my friend has done so on xyz dot net, can users here communicate with users there? How?
  Thanks for helping to understand.
  
  I posted this message at http://bentio.com/notice/2532902 (bentio being in the list at http://status.net/wiki/List_of_servers) ..... however the message did not show up simultaneously in identi.ca
• habi

  December 2011

  @kaberi your message will not automatically show up on another instance. you can interact with users on another instance if you're subscribed to them or if you address them. for me (status.davidhaberthuer.ch) you'd address a notice @habi@status.davidhaberthuer.ch, my (old, defunct) account on identi.ca can be addressed with @habi@identi.ca from any federated instance...
• kaberi

  January 2012

  @habi okay - thanks so much. But I need some more little help. I have set up 2 statusnet sites on 2 completely different domains on different webhosts, for example xyz.com/sta and abc.com/sta. BUT when a message is posted by an user at xyz.com to @user_name@abc.com/sta it does not show up, and vice versa. What else one needs to do on the admin side or configuration? These are all latest stable default installs, with default OStatus installed.
  Thanks again.
• habi

  January 2012

  @kaberi I'm sorry, I can't help you. With me federated instance this worked out of the box. Maybe you can talk to people on IRC (freenode #statusnet) and ask for help there, since the forum doesn't seem to attract too many helpful people...