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**Update 2024-08-24**
TL;DR Zot protocol was abandoned a few years ago, and the surviving Zot projects now use a modified version of AP, extended by a group of FEPs using work by Zot creator Mike MacGirvin. This project will be retained for historical purposes, but it unlikely to be updated further.
The Zot protocol was primarily the work of federated social network pioneer and serial founder [Mike MacGirvin](https://wedistribute.org/2017/10/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-on-building-your-own-apps-and-protocols/). Who was behind a [number of fediverse-related software projects](https://fediversity.site/display/?mid=https://fediversity.site/item/22abcd18-387b-4d38-9a67-1fee59197b23), under a number of names, including MistPark, Friendica, Red Matrix, Hubzilla, Osada, Zap, the-nameless-project-known-as-"streams", and most recently [Forte](https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte). Most of these began as a fork of their predecessor, allowing Mike to reprioritise and aggressively refactor the code. While leaving any community of code contributors and server admins that might have formed around the previous project to continue in their own direction.
The protocol work that became known as Zot became more well-known among the OStatus and Diaspora branches of fediverse around the time of the ActivityPub standardisation process at W3C. Especially after both Friendica and Hubzilla implemented OStatus and reverse-engineered the Diaspora protocol, which began the process of merging what had been two federated social networks; "the fediverse" using OStatus and "the federation" using Diaspora. But Mike was unhappy with the final ActivityPub spec, so he continued his work on Zot-based apps. Initially forking Hubzilla into two projects, one Zot only (Zap) and one supporting AP too (Osada).
Then, some time after declaring AP unusable and abandoning work on Osada, he abandoned Zap as well. Forking it into a repo called streams, which did support AP, and which he said was nameless and without a license. When the FEP process was set up to standardise extentions and variations of vanilla ActivityPub for different purposes, he started describing Zot behaviours as FEPs, so they could be used in AP apps too. This seems to have been so successful that he's now abandoned the-nameless-project-known-as-"streams", and forked it into a new project described as an AP app. To riff on Fight Club; in death, a member of Project Zot has a name; its name is [Forte](https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte).
RIP.
**References:**
https://wedistribute.org/2017/10/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-on-building-your-own-apps-and-protocols/
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🎉 == **projects that have successfully federated with this protocol**