dick_turpin 
@thelovebug <font size="42">DAVE!</font>
Dave Lee (moved to @@[email protected] Blimey, never expected to see you back on the "federated" web! 😀
@thelovebug Federated web, Ha! Nothings changed. You cant search across instances, you cant talk to other services and there's still no bloody unicorns!
jansegers@dick_turpin @thelovebug
You can talk to other instances and to GNUsocial nodes as well ...
and you get to see a part of the fediverse in the federated timeline...
toot ! 🐘
@thelovebug @jansegers See what you've started. It's 2008 all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identi.ca :-D
the difference with http://identi.ca is that the flagship instance http://mastodon.social was closed in time to permit other instances of Mastodon to florish as well ...
plus that the GNUsocial fediverse was already in place and that http://mastodon.social could talk to another node in the bigger fediverse ...
toot ! 🐘
@jansegers @thelovebug Even 500 characters is not enough sometimes. :-)
https://pastebin.com/SE4mXRnh
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Luke@dickturpin @jansegers @thelovebug the expression federated never went away! Folks have said it nonstop.
☠️ Grumpy Oldman@luke @dickturpin @jansegers @thelovebug and the !fediverse still keeps growing. It's about OpenStandards not platforms :)
@grmpyoldman @jansegers @luke You do know "OpenStandards" is just a name/title don't you? A bit like GPL or Creative Commons. :-)
See @thelovebug it's fooking 2008 - 2013 all over again. Bwahaha
@dickturpin@mastodon.org.uk Never try to explain license names to politics - for "marketing" & lobbying FLOSS, "OpenStandards" is fine ;)