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.
I was going to ask Evan if he could find the current URL for the very first identi.ca post, but turns out he already did that for the anniversary post a year ago. =)
@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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