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PaulaToThePeople

A little Fediverse history for y'all.

A year ago tomorrow something was trending in the (mostly just German language) Fediverse, that didn't trend anywhere else, afaik.

:antifa: The #AntifaSticker meme!

The idea existed long before and the premise didn't change: Take the antifa logo and replace the text with a rhyme - usually with the format "something something but still here, something something antifa", which rhymes in German.

There were so many versions created in the next days and weeks that nobody could count.
If you go to my profile and look at just media (climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo) you don't have to scroll back far to see my creations (mostly in German).

Antifa Sticker meme (black circle with a black/red logo inside). The logo inside is the unofficial Fediverse pentagram logo and the text on the circle reads "Andere Instanz, trotzdem da, föderierte Antifa" which translates to "different instance but still here, federated antifa".
#antifa#meme#FediverseHistory
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Jupiter Rowland
@@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: Mastodon did start out as a full-stack Web application AFAIK. It used the OStatus protocol, the same protocol as what GNU social was based on and what StatusNet was using prior to its merger with its own fork, GNU social.

However, at first, it was not positioned as a fully independent project of its own, much less a federated walled garden that allegedly only connected to itself. It was initially conceived and advertised as an alternative to GNU social proper with a different, "easier-to-use", more Twitter-like GUI being its main selling-point.

I guess it's pretty obvious that what was working underneath was not GNU social proper either. Two examples to prove this:

Neither Identi.ca nor StatusNet nor GNU social had a rigid, hard-coded character limit of 500 characters. Mastodon had it from the get-go.

Also, Identi.ca, StatusNet and GNU social had a summary field. It was part of the OpenMicroBlogging and OStatus protocols. Both Friendica and Hubzilla made use of this summary field as such. Mastodon did not have the summary field implemented because summaries were pointless if all you had was 500 characters.

Fast-forward to 2017. Mastodon had meanwhile repositioned itself on the "market" as a stand-alone microblogging platform, implying to be a "decentralised, federated walled garden" with its own exclusive technology that nothing else used, and that nothing else connected to. Something that just about every last Mastodon newbie takes Mastodon for still today.

At some point in 2017, a Mastodon user from the demo scene with some development experience submitted a pull request to Mastodon's GitHub repository which would repurpose this very same summary field as a content warning field. The pull request was accepted and merged. Ever since shortly afterwards, Mastodon users started believing that Mastodon's content warning field was invented by Eugen Rochko from scratch. And they still do.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Identi.ca #StatusNet #OStatus #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #FediverseHistory
hub.netzgemeinde.euNetzgemeinde/Hubzilla
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

📚 Mastodon History

Back in February 23rd, 2016 — Mastodon first described itself as:

“Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project.”

The history of Mastodon is tied to GNU Social.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/b

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/t

Mastodon Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project. Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon. The core ideals of this project are: • Independence of legacy Twitter APIs - we don't want to be compatible with Twitter clients, we want our own clients • In that vein, a strong and clean REST API and OAuth2 • Minimalism. Just because you can do almost anything with ActivityStreams doesn't mean you should. Limit the set of possible functions to what makes sense in a microblogging engine. This will make federation as well as UI design a lot easier • Ease of deployment. The end-goal of this project is to be distributable as a Docker image. Current status of the project is early development. Documentation, licensing information &co will be added later
#DeSo#Fediverse#FediverseHIstory
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Jupiter Rowland
@@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: 2008. When @Evan Prodromou launched Identi.ca.

After all, Mastodon started out as an alternative frontend for GNU social. GNU social is a fork of StatusNet. StatusNet, in turn, was the software which Identi.ca used to run on until it was merged into GNU social in 2013. (Evan first launched Identi.ca, and then he open-sourced the technology under the name of Laconi.ca, later StatusNet.)

This also means that the OStatus protocol is part of Mastodon's history as well. OStatus is the protocol that GNU social was based on back in the day and probably still is, that later versions of StatusNet were based on, and that Mastodon was originally based on. It's the successor to OpenMicroBlogging, the protocol that Identi.ca was launched on, and that early StatusNet was based on. But it was gone when Mastodon was launched.

It's also fair to mention Friendica, the Facebook alternative launched by @Mike Macgirvin ?️ in 2010, and Hubzilla, the "federated social content management system" which, in 2015, emerged from something that Mike himself had forked off Friendica in 2012.

Both speak a whole lot of protocols. Hubzilla used to speak OStatus, Friendica still does. And so, when the very first Mastodon test release came out in early 2016, and the very first Mastodon instance was started up, it was immediately able to connect to GNU social, Friendica and Hubzilla.

It's an important part of Mastodon's history that Mastodon has never in its history been an isolated walled garden, that Mastodon has never in its history been connected to only itself.

Speaking of Hubzilla, it should be mentioned once again, namely in 2017.

The very first Fediverse project to implement ActivityPub was Hubzilla in July. Mastodon followed in September. These two were the only Fediverse projects that adopted ActivityPub before it was declared a standard. And so, for quite a while, it was only these two that could use ActivityPub to connect to each other (while still also being able to do so via OStatus, by the way). But since both have vastly different philosophies, actual compatibility was and still is limited.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Identi.ca #StatusNet #OStatus #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #ActivityPub #FediverseHistory
#fediversehistory#identica
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Strypey

I don’t know whether to be pleased or embarrassed that my 2017 'brief history of the fediverse' blog piece continues to get linked here every now and then, and in blog posts about the fediverse. Despite the fact that the only way to do that is via archived copies. Because the service that hosted my blog vanished from the web in 2020, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

To make it easier to find, I've posted a copy on SocialHub:

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

SocialHub · Fediverse history piece from 2017: A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’In late 2016, the fediverse was reeling under the onslaught of the first two major waves of people leaving Titter for our shores. So in April 2017, in an attempt to put the fediverse into a bit of a historical context for these newbies, I published a blog piece. Aiming for a breezy, vaguely shitposty tone, that would make it entertaining to read, as well as somewhat informative. I don’t know whether to be pleased or embarrassed that this blog piece continues to get linked on the fediverse ever...
#fediverse#FediverseHistory#SocialHub
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Richard MacManus

Lots of great memories (and photos!) in this post. It's October 15, 2009, and ReadWriteWeb holds its first ever event, a one-day 'unconference' at the beautiful Computer History Museum in Mountain View. And fediverse fans: note the Activity Streams and PubSubHubbub sessions and pics...maybe a few of you were there that day? cybercultural.com/p/042-readwr #InternetHistory #FediverseHistory #unconference

CyberculturalThe ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, October 2009ReadWriteWeb holds its first ever event, a one-day 'unconference' at the beautiful Computer History Museum in Mountain View, on a sunny fall day in 2009.
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Strypey

@jikodesu
> Elon Musk bought Twitter on Oct. 27, 2022. Many people joined Mastodon around this time. When did you sign up?

Mastodon? About 6-7 years ago, I think? Before that I was on a GNU social server for a few years.

Fun fact: the original Mastodon.social was set up to federate over the OStatus protocol with GNU social (and Pleroma, Friendica, Hubzilla, and a defunct project called postActiv);

scribe.rip/we-distribute/a-qui

scribe.ripA quick guide to The Free Network
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Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

Lots of old names here. #FediverseHistory

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