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1. mykola 🙃🌎🤘 (mykola@a.weirder.earth)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 14:46:05 EDT mykola 🙃🌎🤘

   First the queers and furries build a space where they can be themselves.

   Then the infosec folks find that it fits well with their values.

   Then the communists flock to the first real alternative to capitalist monopoly on shortform burst communication.

   Then the artists come to find new walls to paint and nobody to tell them no.

   The intellectuals, the chroniclers, the priests and the prophets, singly and in droves.

   Slowly, it builds. It's neat to build an oral history from inception. #mastodon

   1. 🌈 A. Wilcox delicately (awilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 01:01:17 EST 🌈 A. Wilcox delicately

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      @mykola it is refreshing to see someone celebrating inclusion of "more than queer and furries"

      I for one welcome all the disenfranchised masses, freedom from corporations is awesome

   2. worst girl 🏴‍☠️ (xj9@sunshinegardens.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 11:13:03 EST worst girl 🏴‍☠️

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      @mykola you forget the ten year preamble that was identica, gnu/social, and pump.io; that's part of the story too. the fediverse is nearly the same age as twitter. i had an account on identica for a long time back in the day. my more recent relationship with the fediverse started at loadaverage.org, before mastodon even existed.

      most of the users during that decade (after identica died) were free software people who joined gnu/social for a lot of different reasons.