• Tag365@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This has been going on for 16 years? I thought it was started in the mid or late 2010s.

  • Jupiter Rowland
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    7 months ago

    At least hardly anyone on Lemmy believes the Fediverse was invented by Eugen Rochko in 2022 as a reaction upon Elon Musk’s announcement to buy Twitter.

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      7 months ago

      This.

      Plus if I’m being honest, he’s a dick. My company had to have several meetings with him re: app development, and he just lectured us.

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          Yeah, we wanted to make sure he was cool with how we approached getting posts from users, for example (our method worked, but was different). We had a lot of really cool things lined up, but he was more interested in finances. I didn’t understand that until the nonprofit status for Mastodon arrived.