@davetroy Maybe Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, the founders of Jaiku, can tell us the story in more detail when they join Mastodon?

I can't find them through name search here yet and no indications of Mastodon on their Twitter accounts' bio.

#MastodonMeetup #Slush2022 #Jaiku #PubSubHubbub #ActivityPub #RSS #API

@davetroy I brought up this exact point and we discussed this topic at the first Mastodon meeting in Finland last night.

https://attractive.space/@Setok/109364326291755986

Finnish startup Jaiku from 2006 was also mentioned as opening API for aggregated social media before PubSubHubbub, though bought by Google and discontinued shortly after. Hard to find exact details on this history because of link rot.

And I'm too young to remember these events clearly while being in high school back then.

#MastodonMeetup #Slush2022

@Fulcrum @Setok Went really well even as there were only 6 of us in total. The best conversations about #tech I have had in years. Better than the talks on stage at #Slush2022 in my opinion.

Would recommend for others to also meetup like this around the world!
#MastodonMeetup

@jhpot We just hosted the first Mastodon meetup in Helsinki, Finland today as an unofficial #Slush2022 side event. We don't know if this was even the first of its kind anywhere?

https://attractive.space/@Setok/109360946800769350

Just to let you know that there might be IRL Mastodon events going in Britain now too.

#mastodonmeetup #meetup

@jeffjarvis I tried to suggest for the largest newspaper in Finland called "Helsingin Sanomat" to join here.

Finland has often been at the forefront of adopting new tech, especially relating to networking.

They haven't answered but we have a spark of a grassroots movement during #Slush2022 this week to onboard the 12k attendees of the event to Mastodon tomorrow.

Maybe you could nudge the Finnish newspaper to act on Twitter and be part of history?

Here's the Tweet:
https://twitter.com/PekkaByte/status/1592974843158597633