Following up on this: I'm doing a bit of research on the very early days of the fediverse, like in the Laconia / Friendika era. One name that comes up now and again is Indymedia, but I've found very few resources about its relationship to the fediverse. Was Indymedia a part of it at some point?

The closest I could find was that their Newswire service was powered by OStatus, but that was an obscure mention by @kaniini many months ago.