Open Membership RSS

The canonical specification. Defines the namespace, discovery document, credential profiles, and conformance levels. Read this first; the companion specs extend it.

How a subscriber moves between reader apps without re-subscribing. JSON-LD export of stored tokens, credentials, receipts, bundle memberships, and pending gifts, encrypted with age or JWE.

Rules for a publisher running both Open Membership and ActivityPub on the same domain. Covers actor mapping, monetization signalling, and avoiding identity collisions across the two stacks.

A normalized shape any closed-platform adapter (Substack, Patreon, Memberful) can target. Defines the surface a publisher-owned bridge must expose to be interoperable with om readers.

Bidirectional mapping of om elements to Atom 1.0 (RFC 4287) and JSON Feed 1.1. Lets a publisher serve the same paid content over any of the three syndication formats with the same access semantics.

Optional declarations a publisher can make about per-device limits and anti-sharing detection, with reader-side conventions for honoring them. Inspired by Patreon's tokenized-feed enforcement model.

Editorial corrections to 0.4. Non-substantive; canonical URI remains the 0.4 namespace.