Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1
It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg
Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.
#Fediverse16
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.
App for Mastodon?
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.