@boilingsteam

* Been on #Mastodon since the beginning: 2017-04-05 (although Mastodon was first released in 2016). Oh, wow, just turned 6 years since I created my first Mastodon-software account and my first #Toot (as it was called then).
— Original protocol: #OStatus
— My first Mastodon-software account was with aleph.land
— I was still running my own #Hubzilla instance at this time.

* But, I've been on the #Fediverse since the beginning: 2008 ^_^
— The first instance was: #Identica
— The first software was: #Laconica — which was later renamed to #StatusNet; and then merged with #GnuSocial and #FreeSocial. The surviving brand is GNU Social, but the code is, afaik, Laconica/StatusNet.
— The first protocol was #OpenMicroBlogging (not to be confused with the second fediverse software #OpenMicroBlogger)
— Other than the flagship, the largest instance (2008) was “The TWiT Army Canteen”. (Surviving photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/twitarmyflickr/3379859096/ [archived, just in case, only found it today])

More on the history: https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns

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