Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 32

So, happy birthday Fediverse! It's been a joy to see you happen and I am grateful to not just the handful of people mentioned, but to all the other people who were necesssary for this to ever happen, to happen the way it did, and for it to still be here today.

Thank you to all of you, and if I can make sure it won't clash with my HK visa renewal, I hope to meet several of you at FOSSy 2024!

Even though I barely remember why I moved here, libranet is now the main I've had the longest. It has performance issues sometimes, it needs to periodically close for db backups, the UI has its fair share of quirks, but I feel really at home here.

Life is slower and more thoughtful in the conversation-oriented Friendica model, compared to the more microbloggy and hectic Pleroma, Mastodon and *key worlds. To me, anyway.

Here's a funny thing. My latest jump between accounts was when I moved here, to libranet. And that's the one I'm the most vague on. 🤣

I joined on 2018-07-03 and I think it was because I had wanted to try Friendica for some time. I think Heldscalla was also always intended to be an interim and an experiment. But then quitter.se collapsed shortly after I joined.

I think I may have been one of the last active users on Heldscalla, as Pleroma BE was ready, and people had left for a full FE+BE Pleroma server like Soykaf, or they had gone to Mastodon. It was closed or collapsed shortly after I left, I think.

As AP was coming up, @Knight of the middle eastern calculus started working on Pleroma to explore:

1. AP, and a backend written to use it as its internal datamodel from the get go
2. A backend in a language for highly concurrent network services (Elixir)
3. A frontend with new ideas for threading and a modern web framework (Vue)

The first phase was to bootstrap by building the new frontend over the GNU Social backend. Some time around 2017-04-01 I joined heldscalla to be there as it happened. We can see in chirp.cooleysekula.net/convers… that I was setting up my follows on the new account.

Around the time Mastodon entered the room, ActivityPub was already brewing in the background. Why?

1. @Evan Prodromou wanted to take pump.io lessons learned to the W3C
2. @Christine Lemmer-Webber wanted federation in MediaGoblin

In the end, ActivityPub almost didn't become a W3C recommendation due to time constraints if it hadn't been for the fact that

3. @Eugen Rochko wanted better privacy controls and federated DMs in Mastodon, and less papering over the gaps in OStatus

Bwaaaahahaha this classic exchange.

web.archive.org/web/2017021919…

@lambadalambda What's going on on your instance?

You think I'm going to ban / moderate someone because one user on mastodon.social had to read a DISSERTATION on ancap politics?

2016 was a tumultuous year. A Twitter exodus led to @Angry Sun and others first joining quitter.se and other Qvitter sites, then setting up their own servers where they didn't have to follow quitter.se rules. quitter.se admin Hannes helped them with this, you can read more about it in Robek's web.archive.org/web/2022110718… . This changed Fediverse social dynamics forever.

A few months later @Eugen Rochko launched Mastodon and mastodon.social. *This* changed Fediverse social dynamics forever. Again.

2016-10-11 I joined mastodon.social to try it out, but quitter.se was still my main.

It was becoming clear that Qvitter was the future of the Fediverse. It was being called the Fediverse now, at least by some people, since around May 2012 if I remember our fedi archaeology accurately.

GNU Social / StatusNet was looking old-fashioned and Qvitter was the new and cool web application that looked like Twitter 2013 instead of Twitter 2008. Unfortunately it also broke the Wayback Machine, so today I'm grateful to the sites that retained the old-school UI as their default.

Early on quitter.se seems to have kept old-school the default, so we can see my profile page and that I joined on 2013-07-21.

web.archive.org/web/2013072317…

As parlementum was being wound down and encyclomundo 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/2013050608…

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

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?

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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.

🥰 GNU encyclomundi 🥰

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A brief timeline Fedi and my life on it:

2008-05-18 @Evan Prodromou fires up identi.ca, the beginning of it all:

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This is my first post.

2008-10-14 I joined identi.ca. I don't know what my first post was.

web.archive.org/web/2008121206…

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!

♲ @clacke@libranet.de: Hahaaa! I found a still running old school GNU Social that has a shadow profile of my old #quitter.se account!

chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…

Thank you for hanging in there, Professor Steve. 🥰

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

How are you celebrating?

#fediverse16years

One thing that is wonderful with a GNU Social shadow account is that you can find your hashtagged posts very easily.

My original #cerealization format overview thread:

chirp.cooleysekula.net/convers…
/via chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…

I once tried to find this through fragments on mastodoc or something, but gave up.

@Angry Sun This goes back to two years before SPC existed!

What ancient wisdom was being written? Discussing ice cream burps with @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} 🤣

chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/6?…

Found it! 🤩

chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/6