What was the first federated social media?
Please share the references and thanks in advance.
@a1batross I myself knew federation, decentralization for the first time was from Diaspora -- I also figured out join[insert-a-fedi-here] domain name for the first time from it --, indeed, but was it really the first one? Could you please kindly elaborate?
Diaspora* had a potential but imho it's died as project with it co-founder. RIP :(
@a1batross my condolences to him and his family and everyone he left. Could you please elaborate the end of Diaspora project?
As far as I know, nobody from it's original authors is working on Diaspora today. As a final nail in the coffin, it's maintainer declined AP support request: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422
While I can understand that supporting ActivityPub early had a certain risk, in the retrospective we can say it wasn't a wise decision.
@a1batross what a real effort they made for Diaspora. I am eternally grateful to what they did. However, I understand it now that Diaspora is the one without ActivityPub (as I forgot and tried to recall but failed). Thank you for your explanation, I am grateful.
Hello my friend @strypey, I have a question about fediverse history above, could you please kindly tell me the answer? I am researching on this for myself.
2008 for Identi.ca
If there was something else before that, I'm not sure what it was.
Both @claudiom and I were on identi.ca , Friendi.ca is / was kind of an offshoot from that.
Disapora is not that old, and came from a want/neet to break off from FB, Twitter, and Google Plus.
@randynose thank you very much, Randy! This is what I am looking for. Now the question has been answered.
@ademalsasa Diaspora (thanks for reminding me about the name @randynose ), and even thou it is more micro-blogging than what I was searching for (was looking more for a Facebook/Google+ alternative) I think Mastodon and Pleroma are far more successful 😎👍
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@ademalsasa Same here, Fidonet was the first for me. A few years later I discovered Usenet but only when I joined university, because we had Internet there - while Fidonet was operating 100% without Internet, based on PCs with modems dialing each other.
@claudiom @randynose @ademalsasa I thought laconi.ca was the company built around it?
@claudiom @randynose @ademalsasa The naming was always a little confusing. I was around in the early days too (just passed 13 years in the fediverse)
@murph hello, Senior. Glad to find you and hear your experience.
@meeper @a1batross @ademalsasa and also diaspora wasn't designed with AP in mind
@meeper @a1batross @ademalsasa also why are gnu social and identi.ca seperate
@a_breakin_glass @meeper @a1batross @ademalsasa As I understand it, GNUsocial was the branch that was created when identi.ca adopted pump.io as a protocol, leaving the older (now renamed) GNUsocial. As it turned out, both continued on, with limited results. So identi.ca predated GNUsocial.
@murph thank you very much. This is what I was looking for, Senior. Now I understand that Identica was the first one.
@ademalsasa @a_breakin_glass @meeper @a1batross I'm glad to help. Keep in mind, however, that I have no idea on the diaspora and frendica timelines, so don't consider this all canonical. It's just what I recall from hanging around and enjoying the community.
@murph glad to meet you!
@Ahuka thank you, thank you sir Ahuka! This is history!
@ademalsasa @Ahuka @a_breakin_glass @meeper @a1batross I have to see if I can find the LibrePlanet talk that Evan gave sometime around 2010 or 2012 or so. If I can find It, I'll pass it along.
@murph mmm, that sounds very legit. I would love to watch it too.
@ademalsasa @Ahuka @a_breakin_glass @meeper @a1batross I'm going from memory, and a first look had brought up nothing. Sorry to raise expectations.
@ademalsasa @Ahuka @a_breakin_glass @meeper @a1batross I did however, find this: https://opensource.com/life/13/7/pump-io
From when the pump.io split happened.