Post #2975702

2022-11-26 03:30 UTC

But this influx has brought new challenges as well - slowdowns and moderation issues on many instances as they have difficulty absorbing the increased traffic, a further increase in the zealous use of instance suspensions threatening to fragment the network and create centralized silos, and many new users having difficulty understanding how the network functions. (Thanks for making it to the end of this thread! I hope I didn't make any egregious errors.)

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@f00fc7c8@kind.social 2022-11-26 15:14

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

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@AutisticMumTo3@coop.lol 2022-11-26 03:47

@f00fc7c8@kind.social Thanks for writing it

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@prem_k@mastodon.social 2022-11-26 13:25

@f00fc7c8@kind.social *sigh* those were the days! I lost track of Identi.ca & TWiT after around 2013ish. Thank you for rejigging my memory. ☺️👍🏼

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@schock@mastodon.lol 2022-11-26 13:40

@f00fc7c8@kind.social thank you for writing this excellent short history of the #Fediverse!

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@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot 2022-11-26 13:48

@f00fc7c8@kind.social great thread! There was also Diaspora in 2010 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network) It was inspired by a series of talks given by Eben Moglen, the Free Software Foundation's lawyer.

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@tapioliller@mastodon.social 2022-11-26 13:55

@f00fc7c8@kind.social nice one, thanks! I remember the identi.ca days but wasn’t aware about its fate.

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@rstarman@infosec.exchange 2022-11-26 14:09

@f00fc7c8@kind.social Thank you! Very informative for this n00b.

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@acotte@mastodon.gougere.fr 2022-11-26 14:13

@f00fc7c8@kind.social Many thanks for this history of federated social networking. I appreciate.

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@phneutral@ruhr.social 2022-11-26 15:13

@f00fc7c8@kind.social Looking forward to a future with ActivityPub enabled tumblr and flickr. It’s like the good old internet of decentralisation and open standards finally has some sort of rebirth. Here is to the open ones!

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