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Happy 16th anniversary, #fediverse!

cosocial.ca Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])

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. http...

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

  • 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.

    • 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.