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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:01:51 JST clacke

   On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

   How are you celebrating?

   #fediverse16years

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:01:44 JST morph

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     @clacke R.I.P. Charles🕯️

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:01:45 JST clacke

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     As parlementum was being wound down and encyclomundi withdrawing from online life in 2013, I took temporary refuge at unlimited.status.net, one of many general-purpose *.status.net servers Evan's company StatusNet was running, experimenting with different maximum post length. They had names like 280, 560 and ... unlimited.

     This was during the #pumpocalypse. identi.ca was already running pump.io at this point, but *.status.net were still on StatusNet and OStatus. I was already on the pumpiverse with an account on microca.st, but wanted to stay on the OStatusverse as well. It was not yet clear what that verse would look like without its flagship.

     web.archive.org/web/2013050608…

     We can see one of the last parlementum posts reposted here:

     FINAL WARNING! !parlementum SN site & hyacinth server are shutting down during the day of 15 April PDT.
     about 22 days ago from parlementum.net at Wheel Estates Mobile Home Park, Washington, United States Repeat of encyclomundi
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:01:47 JST clacke

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     2011-11-29 I joined parlementum.net. What's the point of being on a federated network if you're on the same server as everyone else?

     web.archive.org/web/2013030121…

     Parlementum was run by encyclomundi, who after a while would come down with life-threatening illness and disappeared off the net for several years. When he resurfaced we said hello on Twitter, but I never met him in person before he left this world for good.

     This loss was the point at which I decided I should travel to meet more fedis, so if you meet me in Portland, OR in August this year, it will be partly because Charles "encyclomundi" Roth, his generosity and his kindness made such a deep impression on me.

     🥰 GNU encyclomundi 🥰

     web.archive.org/web/2011082708…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:01:48 JST clacke

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     • Evan Prodromou

     A brief timeline Fedi and my life on it:

     2008-05-18 @evan fires up identi.ca, the beginning of it all:

     web.archive.org/web/2008061816…

     This is my first post.

     2008-10-14 I joined identi.ca. I don't know what my first post was.

     web.archive.org/web/2008121206…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:01:50 JST clacke

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     Tonight when I should have been sleeping or writing some stuff for work, I accidentally took a walk down fedi memory lane. Someone posted on their profile which accounts they had when, and I was inspired and made yet another attempt to locate some fragments of posts on servers long gone.

     This time I was successful!
     RE: libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-1…

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:35:18 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     I think I briefly had a Parlementum account. I felt like I didn't have the resources to help support Charles' dream, so I didn't want to consume the limited resources he had available.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:02:46 JST Christmas Sun

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     • Eugen Rochko
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     @clacke @evan @Gargron Mastodon in my opinion changed the culture of the Fediverse multiple times in different subsequent waves! There was as much culture shock between us and some of the 2018 people as between 2016 GNU Social Fediverse and when sealion.club/freezepeach.social and SPC arrived.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:02:48 JST clacke

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Christmas Sun

     2016 was a tumultuous year. A Twitter exodus led to @sun and others first joining quitter.se and other Qvitter sites, then setting up their own servers where they didn't have to follow quitter.se rules. quitter.se admin Hannes helped them with this, you can read more about it in Robek's web.archive.org/web/2022110718… . This changed Fediverse social dynamics forever.

     A few months later @Gargron launched Mastodon and mastodon.social. *This* changed Fediverse social dynamics forever. Again.

     2016-10-11 I joined mastodon.social to try it out, but quitter.se was still my main.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:02:49 JST clacke

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     It was becoming clear that Qvitter was the future of the Fediverse. It was being called the Fediverse now, at least by some people, since around May 2012 if I remember our fedi archaeology accurately.

     GNU Social / StatusNet was looking old-fashioned and Qvitter was the new and cool web application that looked like Twitter 2013 instead of Twitter 2008. Unfortunately it also broke the Wayback Machine, so today I'm grateful to the sites that retained the old-school UI as their default.

     Early on quitter.se seems to have kept old-school the default, so we can see my profile page and that I joined on 2013-07-21.

     web.archive.org/web/2013072317…

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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:09:28 JST Christmas Sun

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     @clacke the hachyderm wave has just been absolutely insufferable. I don't feel threatened, just really, really annoyed by hyper-tweeteroids.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:09:29 JST clacke

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     • Christmas Sun
     @sun Yeah, every subsequent Twitter wave has basically had culture shock with the wave before it. 😄
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     iceloops (iceloops@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:09:34 JST iceloops

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     • Christmas Sun
     @sun @clacke @Gargron @evan they did I was there
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:14:45 JST clacke

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     Bwaaaahahaha this classic exchange.

     web.archive.org/web/2017021919…

     @lambadalambda What's going on on your instance?

     
     You think I'm going to ban / moderate someone because one user on mastodon.social had to read a DISSERTATION on ancap politics?

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:14:45 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Christmas Sun
     @sun @clacke Weirdest one is I barely have memories of how SPC/FZP/… changed fedi (as I joined fedi somewhere in in 2013, first instance being loadaverage.org which was one of the last GNU Social instances to close down).
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:19:45 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • iceloops
     @iceloops @clacke @sun yeah, I hopped to the Friendica side of things with friendica.eu / social.hacktivis.me / snarl.de / … at some point though so I could connect with the folks at diaspora without yet-another-account (and then diaspora got irrelevant).
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     iceloops (iceloops@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:19:46 JST iceloops

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     • Christmas Sun
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     @lanodan @clacke @sun fun
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     iceloops (iceloops@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:19:47 JST iceloops

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Christmas Sun
     @lanodan @clacke @sun loadadverage was
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     ランファン (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:21:12 JST ランファン

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     • Christmas Sun
     @sun
     
     They blocked my instance quickly enough to spare me that issue
     
     @clacke
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:27:47 JST Christmas Sun

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     • elmussol
     @elmussol @clacke The joy that has been derived from meeting others on this network is incredible and I am grateful to people like Evan for bringing this space into existence.
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     elmussol (elmussol@streams.elsmussols.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:27:54 JST elmussol

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     When Charles got too ill to give Parlementum the love it deserved, he moved his fedi presence to my (at the time Red Matrix) elsmussols.net instance and then came along for the ride when we went Hubzilla.
     
     We were the same age to within a couple of weeks and I miss him a lot and think of him often. A privilege to know him.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:04:14 JST clacke

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     • Fish in the percolator

     As AP was coming up, @lain started working on Pleroma to explore:

     1. AP, and a backend written to use it as its internal datamodel from the get go
     2. A backend in a language for highly concurrent network services (Elixir)
     3. A frontend with new ideas for threading and a modern web framework (Vue)

     The first phase was to bootstrap by building the new frontend over the GNU Social backend. Some time around 2017-04-01 I joined heldscalla to be there as it happened. We can see in chirp.cooleysekula.net/convers… that I was setting up my follows on the new account.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:04:15 JST clacke

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     Around the time Mastodon entered the room, ActivityPub was already brewing in the background. Why?

     1. @evan wanted to take pump.io lessons learned to the W3C
     2. @cwebber wanted federation in MediaGoblin

     In the end, ActivityPub almost didn't become a W3C recommendation due to time constraints if it hadn't been for the fact that

     3. @Gargron wanted better privacy controls and federated DMs in Mastodon, and less papering over the gaps in OStatus

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     Giac El Vecio (giacelvecio@unio.diversispiritus.net.br)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:20:29 JST Giac El Vecio

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     Viva Charles! <3
     
     
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     Ruben (tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:53:34 JST Ruben

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     @clacke Meanwhile I led the fray into Clukker.com - Social Networking for Chickens (a pivotal moment in the Fediverse history)). Some of it even got archived.

     Blacky will be pleased, bless her. I’m sure she would have proclaimed, “Kaarrk, dook dook, dook dook” [Long live the Fediverse”

     https://web.archive.org/web/20101220155837/http://clukker.com:80/blacky

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:54:49 JST clacke

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     • elmussol
     @elmussol Did you meet Charles in person?
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     elmussol (elmussol@streams.elsmussols.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:55:10 JST elmussol

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     • Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols)
     Painfully no. He was desperate to come to els Mussols to see our mountain and our olives. We talked of (pipe-dream) meetings in Jamaica to watch cricket and baseball in Havana.
     
     @Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols) came to visit us irl and if iirc it was not too long after he died. We talked of Charles whilst harvesting olives and just being happy and sad at the same time, knowing he would've absolutely loved that.
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     elmussol (elmussol@streams.elsmussols.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:55:21 JST elmussol

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     • Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)
     And self-professed fediverse nomad @Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) keeps the name alive.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:55:47 JST clacke

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     Here's a funny thing. My latest jump between accounts was when I moved here, to libranet. And that's the one I'm the most vague on. 🤣

     I joined on 2018-07-03 and I think it was because I had wanted to try Friendica for some time. I think Heldscalla was also always intended to be an interim and an experiment. But then quitter.se collapsed shortly after I joined.

     I think I may have been one of the last active users on Heldscalla, as Pleroma BE was ready, and people had left for a full FE+BE Pleroma server like Soykaf, or they had gone to Mastodon. It was closed or collapsed shortly after I left, I think.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:55:48 JST clacke

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     Even though I barely remember why I moved here, libranet is now the main I've had the longest. It has performance issues sometimes, it needs to periodically close for db backups, the UI has its fair share of quirks, but I feel really at home here.

     Life is slower and more thoughtful in the conversation-oriented Friendica model, compared to the more microbloggy and hectic Pleroma, Mastodon and *key worlds. To me, anyway.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:55:51 JST clacke

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     So, happy birthday Fediverse! It's been a joy to see you happen and I am grateful to not just the handful of people mentioned, but to all the other people who were necesssary for this to ever happen, to happen the way it did, and for it to still be here today.

     Thank you to all of you, and if I can make sure it won't clash with my HK visa renewal, I hope to meet several of you at FOSSy 2024!

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     Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:55:53 JST Ryan Finnie

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @clacke @evan Whee! I was one of the first people on identi.ca, and had a habit of sniping the post IDs with round numbers. I ended up getting most of them, but it looks like 10,000,000 was the only which survived on archive.org.

     http://web.archive.org/web/20100824174237/http://identi.ca/notice/10000000

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     heluecht (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:56:02 JST heluecht

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @clacke @evan My Friendica coding experience started in December of 2012.

     My first Statusnet experience had been this:

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:56:05 JST clacke

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     • DecaturNature

     @DecaturNature Post #1:

     web.archive.org/web/2008061816…

     This is my first post.

     2008-05-18 15:49:33

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     DecaturNature (decaturnature@theatl.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:56:06 JST DecaturNature

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     @clacke I didn't realize it was the anniversary, but on Sunday I'll be meeting up with some folk from our local, Atlanta-focused Mastodon instance, and raising awareness at Atlanta Streets Alive.
     What event happened 16 years ago?

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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 12:13:54 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @clacke i mean, id start partying when it happens but i am just a silly internet user :[
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 12:26:02 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • DecaturNature
     So you made fedi? Wtf is a pixie dream boy btw?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 14:52:05 JST clacke

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     • DecaturNature

     @bot @DecaturNature I'm just a user, one among many. I joined a few months in.

     Evan Prodromou wrote and set up the first server, defined the first and second protocols, started the first company, founded and co-chaired the workgroup that standardized the latest protocol.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 14:56:04 JST clacke

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @bot Think tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php… but more socially and energetically burned out and less gurl.
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     • Pleroma-tan
     @kirby aren't we all
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 00:52:38 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @clacke :sadcowboy:
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     Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 03:33:29 JST Erin 💽✨

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • iceloops

     @lanodan @clacke @iceloops @sun its sad to think of the projects which got approached and invited to the ActivityPub process and decided not to get involved and which have slid into irrelevance

     Its understandanle; I think even most of us assumed it would be an XKCD-927 situation; and yet it was sad to watch as they marched stubbornly towards obscurity

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     shellsharks (shellsharks@shellsharks.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 11:10:29 JST shellsharks

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     @clacke Can't say I've been around for all 16 years but glad to have been around for at least the last 2-6 (depending on when I start my count). I'll be writing on my site and posting about it here fwiw.

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     Rita (titi@bcn.fedi.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 11:10:33 JST Rita

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     @clacke Hi! I’m a member of Fedicat (catalan fedizens) and this year we have a brochure to promote the Fediverse and Libre Culture in bookshops :)

     #Fedicat #Fediverse #Fedi16 #HappyFedi2U

     Forum thread: https://agora.fedi.cat/t/fedi16-cultura-lliure-a-llibreries/808
     Pdf in our website: https://fedi.cat/participa/triptic-llibres.pdf
     Font code: https://fedi.cat/participa (zip file)
     Libre Art License (LAL): https://artlibre.org/

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 11:10:46 JST clacke

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     • Rita
     @titi That's a wonderful way to celebrate!
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 11:52:33 JST clacke

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     • clacke@libranet.de is my main
     • clacke@libranet.de is my main

     "A brief timeline of Fedi and my life on it"

     Well that failed, but here's me being actually brief. 😄

     2008-05-18 evan@identi.ca Fedi's first post ever identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QY…

     2008-10-14 clacke@identi.ca identi.ca/clackemovedtounlimit…

     2011-11-29 clacke@parlementum.net web.archive.org/web/2013030121…

     2013-??-?? clacke@unlimited.status.net web.archive.org/web/2013050608…

     2013-07-21 clacke@quitter.se chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/6

     2016-10-11 clacke@mastodon.social @clacke

     2017-03-?? clacke@social.heldscal.la chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…

     2017-05-?? notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com @notclacke

     2018-07-03 Present day! clacke@libranet.de @clacke

     #fedi16 #MyFediHistory

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 14:57:20 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     @clacke Yeah! Parlementum / Encyclomundi. I miss him. He was one of the earliest host who simply provided various services without asking for anything in return.

     He's still around, using Hubzilla I think, but not that active anymore, I think?

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