Yeah, any time someone thinks they can get riches without doing the normally-required work for it, they create a new source of spam.
Back during #Identi.ca's heyday, it was SEO spammers, thanks to an article on a "black hat SEO" site. Their first post was usually almost identical to what the article said, so we learned to be ready to silence (paralyze their account to prevent them from posting) anyone whose first post was "Hi, thanks for letting me in! ..."
Does anyone happen to know whether the old data of #identica users that weren't migrated over when it switched from #StatusNet to #pumpio has been archived anywhere? I see a mention that there was a plan to upload it to @internetarchive, but can't find anything more than that. #fediverse#ostatus
Something I miss about the old #Identica is how weirdly well it ranked on Google. Like I could dent something like "The factory service manual doesn't mention it, but when removing the passenger-side CV axle on a 2000 #Infiniti#i30 you need to unbolt the support bearing (part 22 in the diagram) from the support bracket (part 23)" and somehow that dent would suddenly be in the top 5 results for "2000 infiniti i30 cv axle". On #Mastodon sharing such information feels like shouting into the void.
Ever since the original #bifurcation of the network as Pump.io split off, #Identica has been a mere shadow of itself. It doesn't have complete historical conversations or working hashtags.
When I went back and found my original posts from when I joined in 2009, I couldn't even find the posts by the people who responded to welcome me to the network.
The main reason why Quitter.se in particular stood out in 2016 was that its admins and developers Hannes Mannerheim and @3mp0 created a UI resembling features of Twitter (which is why it was called Qvitter), with the goal to help Twitter users move to the Fediverse.
Today, with ActivityPub the main protocol and Mastodon the main platform software in the fediverse, gnusocial is a niche project. Gnusocial.net seems to be the largest one.
It’s still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
@clacke I was here in 2009, so it was still early days, but apparently not as early as it felt. For example, the former Twitter employee who created some of the standards that Identica and StatusNet used (including at least one that Mastodon still uses) was unknown to me. I remember hearing about #Twitter plans to federate with #Identica, but I was not aware that they had sent at least one message across networks before deciding to go toward the walled garden model.
This issue with replies not showing on Mastodon is a huge problem, that needs to be fixed.
I can't remember that we had this issue with Identi.ca/Laconi.ca and the different protocols it used, but I don't know if that's because the issue didn't exist, or because most people used the main instance.
Does other federated tools of today have this same problem, like Pixelfed or PeerTube?