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
  • Tag365@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

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

  • Jupiter RowlandEnglish
    8·
    6 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.

    • loafEnglish
      2·
      6 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.

        • loafEnglish
          1·
          6 months 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.