clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππOn Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!
How are you celebrating?
Tonight when I should have been sleeping or writing some stuff for work, I accidentally took a walk down fedi memory lane. Someone posted on their profile which accounts they had when, and I was inspired and made yet another attempt to locate some fragments of posts on servers long gone.
This time I was successful!
RE: libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-1β¦
A brief timeline of Fedi and my life on it:
2008-05-18 @evan fires up identi.ca, the beginning of it all:
web.archive.org/web/2008061816β¦
This is my first post.2008-10-14 I joined identi.ca. I don't know what my first post was.
2011-11-29 I joined parlementum.net. What's the point of being on a federated network if you're on the same server as everyone else?
web.archive.org/web/2013030121β¦
Parlementum was run by encyclomundi, who after a while would come down with life-threatening illness and disappeared off the net for several years. When he resurfaced we said hello on Twitter, but I never met him in person before he left this world for good.
This loss was the point at which I decided I should travel to meet more fedis, so if you meet me in Portland, OR in August this year, it will be partly because Charles "encyclomundi" Roth, his generosity and his kindness made such a deep impression on me.
π₯° GNU encyclomundi π₯°
As parlementum was being wound down and encyclomundi withdrawing from online life in 2013, I took temporary refuge at unlimited.status.net, one of many general-purpose *.status.net servers Evan's company StatusNet was running, experimenting with different maximum post length. They had names like 280, 560 and ... unlimited.
This was during the #pumpocalypse. identi.ca was already running pump.io at this point, but *.status.net were still on StatusNet and OStatus. I was already on the pumpiverse with an account on microca.st, but wanted to stay on the OStatusverse as well. It was not yet clear what that verse would look like without its flagship.
web.archive.org/web/2013050608β¦
We can see one of the last parlementum posts reposted here:
FINAL WARNING! !parlementum SN site & hyacinth server are shutting down during the day of 15 April PDT.about 22 days ago from parlementum.net at Wheel Estates Mobile Home Park, Washington, United States Repeat of encyclomundi
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