Sixteen years ago Evan published the first post on what nowadays is called “fediverse”.
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.
At that time I had no clue about the federated social web. I first had a local and unfederated install of the StatusNet software. Later on I enabled OStatus federation on my own own instance and so came in contact with people on identi.ca and other instances. Sadly can’t figure out when exactly that was. I believe it must have been around 2009. This always remained quite meaningful for me personally although in the beginning it was much of a niche on the web and not comparable with today’s opportunities and width of distribution expanded over the last few years.
