Draft:Libravatar
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Libravatar (a portmanteau of libre avatar) is a service which provides avatars (profile picture) to other websites. Libravatar is inspired by Gravatar to provide avatars tied to emails. Additionally, Libravatar provides avatars tied to OpenID addresses. Unlike Gravatar, Libravatar is a federated service whose nodes are implemented with different software programs[1].
History
[edit]In 2010, Francois Marier started to develop the first Libravatar software and to maintain the first instance of the Libravatar federation[2]. In April 2018, after regesitering seven thousand users, Marier announced the upcoming shutdown of the service because of the insufficient people who run mirrors and contributed to the project, and the personal costs of running the project[3]. Additionally, at that time, most libraries and plugins did not implement DNS federation, which was needed to federate the service. However, after Maier's announcement, a group of people reacted and decided to continue to run the service and to work on a new implementation, which was also supported by Marier.
Adoption
[edit]On May 2, 2021, Keyoxide (a decentralized tool to create and verify decentralized online identities) started supporting Libravatar as the preferred platform for avatars because, according their official Mastodon account, it was "the most open and decentralized solution" at that time[4][5].
References
[edit]- ^ "Libravatar Wiki - running your own". Archived from the original on 8 December 2024.
- ^ "Libravatar Wiki - project". Archived from the original on 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Looking back on starting Libravatar". Archived from the original on 30 May 2024.
- ^ "Keyoxide's support for Libravatar". Archived from the original on 26 December 2024.
- ^ "Keyoxide - Create a profile (OpenPGP)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2024.
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