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Federated social media has been around for a long time; the oldest one that I know of was identi.ca from the late 2000s. ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon have since breathed a lot of life into the federated ecosystem and I’m excited to see what the future holds for it.
Arguably, the first federated social media is email from 1981. A more “social networking” type system is IRC from 1988.
How about Usenet (1980)?
Oh, yeah, that even predates email!
Yeah, I had an account on identi.ca. I even wrote about this: https://rys.io/en/168.html
Ah yeah, I remember reading that post awhile ago. I was quite surprised to find out how old Friendica is (first release in 2010); if that doesn’t demonstrate longevity, then I dunno what does.
inb4 all the people who always show up to complain that we need famous people on here for anyone to give a shit about the Fediverse.
Emphatically, I am here because it’s all just random weirdos.
Why thank you Snot Flickerman, I think you’re pretty random yourself. (/s but not in a butthurt way)
there is a ton of famous people active on Mastodon tho. George Takei. John Scalzi. James Gunn. Cory Doctorow. Charlie Stross. William Gibson. Ron Gilbert.
Some left a year ago tho, probably for BlueSky, like Linus Torvald, Stephen Fry, Mark Ruffalo, Greta Thunberg, Felicia Day, etc.
A bunch of official european channels too like the european commission.
Mastodon has more of a flat structure and is designed to be more conversational which is why I think it hasn’t caught on amongst celebrities and the pundit class. It’s great for conversation but only so-so at self promotion.
Lance Ulanoff has replied to this blog post: https://mastodon.social/@Lance_Ulanoff/114285108628269898
Nice to see he took it in stride given how… aggressive the post was about him lol
Yup, I really appreciate he did reply. Gotta say that it did improve my opinion of him.
@rysiek@mstdn.social’s blog is one of my favorites. He really understand the social aspect to a lot of modern technology.
Aww, thank you!
They really shat on Lance in this article, lol.
That was a fun read. Loved the sarcasm.
