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Raise your hand if you've been on the fediverse since the identi.ca days 👋​

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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

and yes I said "the identi.ca days" instead of the StatusNet days because it encompasses a broader period of time and work
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

You can also raise it if you've been around since the StatusNet (or laconica!) days
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

I haven't experienced laconica, but heluecht@identi.ca is still there.
in reply to Michael Vogel

@Michael Vogel @Christine Lemmer-Webber Ok, let me rephrase this.

Which is the significant date you refer to, the date when identi.ca abandoned ostatus?
I was late to the party anyway, but I was wondering what date you meant.

I only used quitter.se for some years until it went down under and setup Friendica in 2014, my current server briefly predates Mastodon by a few months and is from 2015.
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in reply to utzer [Friendica]

I used identi.ca when it was running with statusnet. I had to check my identi.ca Account to see my first post.
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

i still have a shitty static website out there that's just an amalagam of identi.ca dents
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

also, my most popular GH repo is still the OpenShift cartridge I made for Media Goblin, even though that was OpenShift pre-Kubernetes
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

rss/atom and xmpp and such too. This last couple of weeks is the biggest leap towards these kinds of thing going mainstream that I’ve seen in 20+ years of wanting to see it happen. What a time to be alive, etc!
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Hands up in the air 🙌 First identi.ca, then some single user instances (first on shared web hosting, then on a dedicated one) rocking StatusNet, lastly a small multi user one (herds.eu because GNU's move in herds) on gnusocial - first the MMN's spin, had some fun with the Qvitter plugin that made quitter.se so freshly looking, then diogo's fork when development and maintenance was severely lacking.
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Ish. ✋

My identi.ca had issues, and support never responded to fix it :-(

Somewhere I have a prior Mastodon account, but lost access to my old email when my mom was in the hospital one time.
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Thank you for the brainprompt. Recent refugee from birdsite, and was trying to figure out when I'd been on the fediverse before. The identi.ca mention did it. Found a reference to it in my gmail archive, and from there to the internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101128023437/https://identi.ca/fratermus/
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Only intermittently. Never really left XMPP, tho. But my contacts did 😢

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in reply to Clément :linux:

Still upset that Google abandoned XMPP. The future of chat was supposed to be federated!
in reply to Ryan Smith

it wasn't "abandoned". Federated chat was intentionally murdered. I've seen the emails.
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

👋 I just had a look at my old identi.ca account before I moved to a different pump.io instance: I don't have to look past the first page to see where I was resharing something from you about MediaGoblin! 🙂
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

fun times back then! (If you considered long threads about free software licensing and really terrible jokes a fun time, which I did.)
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

👋 identi.ca/quitter.se/quitter.is and now here. To infinity and beyond!
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

👋 good times. though I think 2011 was a tad late to the game. all the same, long live statusnet!
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Been around since then. Even had a few contributions in Identi.ca.
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

*raises hand*

I was here on the #fediverse since 25 July 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080815215528/https://identi.ca/lohang

I am very grateful for the community and the things I've learned by being a participant. I now realize that many of us gave @evan a hard time, without understanding the full picture of the process and the challenges involved.

#identica

(Replying again from my Mastodon account because I noticed that my reply from my own instance didn't reach your thread. It looks like I am blocked by octodon.social)
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

I was on identi.ca before I joined twitter.com in 2009. My twitter handle has been @trc4identica since day one there...

By the way, Christine, many thanks for @mediagoblin too!

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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Wait was laconi.ca first?
I had an account on the first version, but sadly I left the fediverse for over a decade.
I truly don't know what I was thinking.
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

👋🏻 I had an identica account and ran two StatusNet instances (well, only one that ever got used)
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

I mean… 🖖 …. but I left and came back last year, if that counts
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

Here since at least the GNU Social days - I seem to remember identi.ca going to pump.io
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

During the status net times, but after it switched to pump io it totally lost me and I didn't feel home there anymore unfortunately
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

I'm used to thinking of myself as an oldtimer because I've been here for five years, but this puts that in perspective!
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

👋

Oh yes. And I still have an old diaspora sponsor shirt. Been pro real decentralization since way back.
in reply to Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

While pump.io never made great strides on its own (and was never part of the #Fediverse), its protocol ActivityPump formed the basis of ActivityPub that makes today's #Fediverse possible. So the pump.io significance shouldn't be understated.

@lanodan @cwebber
in reply to Bob Jonkman

I would consider StatusNet, identi.ca and pump.io to all be #Fediverse

Sure, we're now mostly using ActivityPub, but it's built on the pioneering Fediverse work that came before it

Some day the Fediverse might leave ActivityPub behind for Spritely or some other new interoperatbilty layer ( perhaps direct /dev/brain BitTorrent to keep our clones in sync )

The Fediverse isn't a protocol, it's a community-run network of interoperable services that AP today enables
in reply to der.hans

@der.hans #Friendica supports all these protocols, I think a lot of thanks for that has to go to @Michael Vogel too, maybe not all, but I think he worked on many of those connections of Friendica to other parts of the Fediverse.
@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @Bob Jonkman @Christine Lemmer-Webber
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

I was trying to figure out diaspora back in 2010. does that count for anything?
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@Michael Vogel I didn't mean to say it is only you, but I think you did touch a lot of the code for for these interoperability. Sorry if that came over wrong.

@Christine Lemmer-Webber @der.hans @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @Bob Jonkman
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

the what? was there anything else before activity pub? I'm curious now. Can you provide more links or something? as you might have imagined, google is not helping much here, probably because of some ulterior motives as well, hmm