Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])
cosocial.ca
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
  • Jupiter RowlandEnglish
    8•1 month 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.

    • loafEnglish
      2•1 month 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.

        • loafEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          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.