f00f/eris/continuum/etc (f00fc7c8@kind.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 08:51:46 JST

A couple additional notes:
- There were plenty of federated communication platforms before Identi.ca. Usenet, FIDOnet (federated BBSes), and of course, e-mail are examples. The lineage to Mastodon is less direct, but it's there.
- The Diaspora social network, founded in 2010 by three NYU students and inspired by the ideas of Eben Moglen, was another large federated microblogging platform, but used its own protocol and was separate from the others.