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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 09:35:47 JST @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

📚 Mastodon History
Back in February 23rd, 2016 — Mastodon first described itself as:
“Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project.”
The history of Mastodon is tied to GNU Social.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e
#DeSo #Fediverse #FediverseHIstory #GNUSocial #Mastodon #MastodonHistory
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1. Mastodon Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project. Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon. The core ideals of this project are: • Independence of legacy Twitter APIs - we don't want to be compatible with Twitter clients, we want our own clients • In that vein, a strong and clean REST API and OAuth2 • Minimalism. Just because you can do almost anything with ActivityStreams doesn't mean you should. Limit the set of possible functions to what makes sense in a microblogging engine. This will make federation as well as UI design a lot easier • Ease of deployment. The end-goal of this project is to be distributable as a Docker image. Current status of the project is early development. Documentation, licensing information &co will be added later
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