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   pixelfed (pixelfed@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 15:52:23 JST pixelfed

   • Evan Prodromou

   Fun fact: The Fediverse's roots trace back to Canada in 2008 with Laconica (created by @evan) which later became GNU/Social.

   Fast forward 17 years, and history repeats itself - Pixelfed.social, now the most active Fediverse server, is proudly Canadian-made. 🇨🇦

   #pixelfed #madeInCanada

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     Joaquim Homrighausen (joho@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 15:52:22 JST Joaquim Homrighausen

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @pixelfed

     I think you should look up "FidoNet" 😊

     Granted, it was "distributed" and not "Federated", but if you compare technologies available at the time, I think you'll find similarities there too.

     Regardless, we're moving in a good direction!

     @evan

     #fidonet #fediverse

     pistolero and nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: repeated this.
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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 15:52:22 JST tom jennings

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Joaquim Homrighausen

     @joho

     FidoNet was designed to be totally center less, with nodelist creation done at multiple nodes including all of them. But it got detoured by powermad region coordinators because of design flaws and my naivety. Oh well! Lol.

     (Joho: imagine if each nets nodelist fragment was (more and less) a post in an echo conference... The echo would have been a nodelist.)

     My scheme was much stupider though. I didn't think of the above til later
     

     @pixelfed @evan

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and pistolero like this.