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@f00fc7c8@kind.social
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same.

Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Joined November 14, 2022
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any (use your spiciest ones)
Linux distro:
Debian GNU/Linux 11 Bullseye
Age:
a real scalar value greater than 18
pfp/banner desc:
Kraftwerk's album Computerwelt, but with a foxgirl

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Aug 03, 2024
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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woem.space appears to be down right now, so i am here. how's everyone doing?

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 08, 2023
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

kind.social

Inspired by the recent 20th Anniversary LRRcast, I did some archive.org digging for old LoadingReadyRun videos. Here's a treasure trove of pixelly 2000s Internet comedy.

https://archive.org/details/lrr-loadingreadyrun.com/

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Oct 12, 2023
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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@pathfinder@cutie.city exactly, i have tried every time management or planning strategy people throw at me, and i'm pretty sure the reason for my "time management issues" is a disability, not that i haven't heard the right advice yet

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Oct 11, 2023
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Institutions designed to help disabled people really don't seem to understand that sometimes, disabilities (especially forms of neurodivergence) make it HARD to do things, but not necessarily impossible.

If keeping up with expectations is so difficult it traumatizes me, but I just barely manage to do it most of the time, nobody cares. Unless something is physically preventing me from doing a thing, the response is just "here's some resources to help you with time management".

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Oct 11, 2023
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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@PlayAllTheThings@linernotes.club sadly, you cannot stop the restless march of time... but you can have a happy birthday!

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Oct 11, 2023
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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so, how are y'all doing?

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Mar 08, 2023
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @mo@kind.social
@mo@kind.social as far as I know they aren't functional, they just work as links to tags that their content often relates to. there is one service that reads the tags in your bio to put you in a directory once you've opted in, but i forgot where to find it
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Mar 07, 2023
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @mo@kind.social
@mo@kind.social hihiii! welcome to kind.social (and the fediverse)!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Dec 23, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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boost this cat whenever you feel like it. no rush.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Dec 15, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @CaffeineSam@mstdn.party
@CaffeineSam@mstdn.party sorry, I was not disagreeing, that was intended as a "yes-and"
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Dec 15, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @CaffeineSam@mstdn.party
@CaffeineSam@mstdn.party automation is not the problem or the solution to the problem; the problem is capitalism exploiting literally everything to help wealth hoarders hoard more wealth
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 27, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @notclacke@misskey.de
@notclacke@misskey.de @clacke thanks for the detailed technical explanation!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 27, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @mattl@mat.tl
@mattl@social.mat.tl I got a bunch of those bulletins with FSF merch I bought some time ago. Neat stuff.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 27, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @mattl@mat.tl
@mattl@social.mat.tl Thanks for clarifying the timeline and for all the feedback, yeah, I seemed to have a few things confused regarding the GNU social/GNU FM/StatusNet connection
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
Friendica also has long had support for federation with Diaspora, and both the OStatus and ActivityPub protocols, plus extensions to read many other social networking and link aggregation services.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
Another note (updated thanks to detailed explanations in a reply by @clacke): I previously left out Diaspora from this thread because it doesn't directly federate with the social networks I mentioned, but it does, partially. Thanks to common elements in Diaspora and StatusNet software stacks, users of Identi.ca, and StatusNet and GNU social instances, can see posts from Diaspora users. However, the differences mean that Diaspora users can't see their posts, and replies do not work.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
More edits: comments by @mattl@social.mat.tl indicate that the GNU social project existed long before StatusNet merged with it, which is confirmed by this FSF blog: . I've updated my wording to reflect that.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de
@jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de @clacke According to that w3c page: "The Federated Social Web concept was started in summer 2010 at the first Federated Social Web Summit in Portland" and "This XG started on 15 December 2010 and transitioned on 12 January 2012 to Federated Social Web Community Group." So around the same time, apparently.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @clacke@libranet.de
@clacke @jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de thanks for the sources there!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
Made some edits to the thread. @clacke tells me that the term Fediverse has been in use since 2011-12, and I can believe that. @jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de confirmed my suggestion that instance suspensions didn't exist in the fediverse during the GNU social era - at the very least, Friendica did not have such a feature.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
  • The maintainers of GNU social also worked on the federated music community GNU FM, of which the most prominent instance was Libre.fm (which I also used around the same time I used GNU social). As @mattl@xoxo.zone describes it, GNU social was his effort to redirect use of GNU FM as a social network, to something better suited for social networking. Both projects started around 2009.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social

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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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @erazlogo@assemblag.es
@erazlogo@assemblag.es @prem_k@mastodon.social By archive I mean the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine, so expect some difficulties, but here: https://web.archive.org/web/20131206162815/http://status.net/blogs/evan
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @prem_k@mastodon.social
@prem_k@mastodon.social I wasn't around for those, so I hope my summary (mostly pulled from Wikipedia and archives of the StatusNet blog) was accurate!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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@schock@mastodon.lol thanks for reading it!
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
In October of 2022, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter, the platform that the largest Fediverse platforms had always aimed to compete with. Under his leadership, in just a month, most of the company's staff was fired, several features of the website became broken, right-wing content was massively promoted, and fears rapidly rose about the website dying or becoming the exclusive territory of the far-right.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
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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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
As a result, many fledgling social networks, as well as established networks with better reputations, absorbed massive influxes of Twitter users. The Fediverse was among the more established networks; it saw activity rise into the millions of users, and that's where things stand now. Amidst chaos on the large instances, the usefulness of the Fediverse in finding communities has increased greatly.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Replying to @f00fc7c8@kind.social
Blocklists of instances with problematic content were widely shared, effectively shutting those instances out of the network; most successful was the #FediBlock hashtag, started by Black users such as artist Marcia X. For a time, this was highly effective in protecting some users, and even led to the fediverse becoming a haven for queer, leftist, and neurodivergent communities. Unfortunately, racism on the Fediverse persists to this day, even on some otherwise well-moderated instances.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Around the same time, Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol was being built upon by a number of experts to form the W3C standard ActivityPub. Mastodon, Friendica, and Pleroma were eager to adopt the new standard, even before it was formally published, and eventually Mastodon and Pleroma would drop their support for OStatus. The Fediverse would continue to expand and new platforms were developed - PeerTube for video sharing, Pixelfed for image sharing, BookWyrm for book reviewing, etc.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Mastodon saw significant expansion in 2017, with #DeleteFacebook and similar pushes against proprietary social networks, and a few larger companies supporting the platform. This was also the first time many instances began suspending, or "defederating from", entire other servers in the Fediverse.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Mastodon's arrival on the scene nearly constituted a reset of the federated social web. Upon its release in 2016, it federated with GNU social, but it quickly eclipsed that platform in userbase, and most of the new users were unaware of the history behind the federated social web. While Mastodon expanded, GNU social seemingly stagnated, with major instances either disappearing or moving to more advanced federated platforms like Mastodon or Pleroma.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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That June, StatusNet development merged with GNU social. Without Identi.ca as a central hub, the number of instances expanded and decentralization was realized. I started getting involved a few years after this change; I tried out GNU social as part of a broader effort to open-source my life, and I found quite a lot of people also involved in open-source.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Unfortunately, the federated social web of this time was quite poorly moderated; there were servers with rules against certain kinds of harmful content, but their admins had difficulty keeping up with other instances that did not share the same rules, including a lot of "free speech" instances that permitted everything within the law. The existing platforms were not yet able to suspend entire instances, so the moderators of each instance were effectively required to moderate the whole fediverse.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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In 2013, StatusNet Inc. was running short on money. Prodromou closed registrations for Identi.ca and laid off the company's staff. But his efforts continued, as he developed a new, more extensible platform called Pump.io. It was never as popular as Identi.ca or StatusNet, but those interested in the future of the federated social web followed its development closely.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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For this purpose, he created the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, which, although limited, allowed Identi.ca users to communicate with users of other Laconica instances, like Leo Laporte's TWiT Army. In August 2009, Laconica - both the company and the software - was renamed to StatusNet. The same year they began developing OStatus as a more advanced protocol for federation, which by March 2010 had allowed different StatusNet instances to act almost as a single social network.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Adding to this were other projects, such as Friendica and GNU social (which would eventually replace StatusNet), which used the same protocol but with a different (in the provided examples, Facebook-like) feature set. Though Identi.ca remained the central server that most users went to, this collective of servers communicating using OStatus became known as the "federated social web," or alternately as the "Fediverse".
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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The open-source microblogging software Laconica was developed by the company of the same name, owned by Evan Prodromou, starting around 2007. It was to be the basis of the social network Identi.ca, and a hosting service for the internal networks of various companies. Since Laconica was open-source, any user had the right to run their own public instance of the software, and Prodromou wanted these instances to be able to communicate with one another, like e-mail servers.
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 26, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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Since Mastodon saw its initial popularity circa 2017, I've noticed that most users and those reporting on it either don't think about the Fediverse as anything more than Mastodon, or treat its history as beginning with Eugen Rochko and the beginning of Mastodon. In fact, Mastodon is the latest in a long line of federated social networks going at least back to Identi.ca, and though I wasn't around for all of it, I find this history pretty interesting. (Thread; boosts welcome!)

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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 18, 2022
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Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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@XanIndigo@writing.exchange I didn't know it was Hbomberguy, thought it was some random streamer... but that 100% checks out
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f00f/eris/continuum/etc @f00fc7c8@kind.social · Nov 15, 2022
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@f00fc7c8@kind.social

Autistic technology nerd into electronic music, FOSS, sci-fi, and retro gaming, among other things. I try to stay open-minded and rational, and encourage others to do the same. Boundaries: Don't label or diagnose me without my consent. Non-sexual flirting is okay, but ask before making overt sexual comments. Tell me when I do something wrong, and give me the benefit of the doubt; I promise I'm trying to do the right thing.

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@JesseSkinner@toot.cafe IMO the only way the fediverse could become bigger than twttr is if it shuts down completely within six months. Besides, it's not supposed to be twttr, it's supposed to be a different kind of social network based in FOSS ideals.
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