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Specs and RFCs used
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* [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)
Federation protocol
* [WebFinger](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033)
User-on-domain lookups
* [HTTP Signatures](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-06)
Server-to-server authentication of requests
* [Linked Data Signatures](https://w3c-dvcg.github.io/ld-signatures/)
Server-to-server authentication of forwarded payloads
* [OStatus](https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatus_1.0_Draft_2.pdf)
Suite of federation protocols
* [Salmon](http://www.salmon-protocol.org/salmon-protocol-summary)
Delivery of targeted events to users
* [Portable Contacts](https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010620/http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html)
Encoding profile information in Atom
* [Atom](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287)
Representing user feeds
* [Atom ActivityStreams](http://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/)
Encoding rich social post metadata
* [Atom Threading](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4685)
Encoding chains of conversations
* [WebSub](https://pubsubhubbub.github.io/PubSubHubbub/pubsubhubbub-core-0.4.html) (formerly PubSubHubbub)
Broadcasting of real-time updates to followers