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Evan Prodromou

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

web.archive.org/web/2008061816

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that. 🫤

identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QY

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!

17 May 2023 at 19:18 | Open on cosocial.ca
25 comments
nilmethod
@evan thanks a ton for identica and pump.io. I made a lot of friends and learned a lot writing software for both.
17 May 2023 at 19:21 | Open on pleroma.destroyallmachines.net
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@evan

🥳
Can i say you look better with today mustache?

17 May 2023 at 19:23 | Open on mastodon.cisti.org
Simon | Síomón

@evan thank you Evan, identi.ca days were happy days

17 May 2023 at 19:28 | Open on masto.ai
Benjamin
Tim Chambers
Samir Al-Battran

@tchambers @evan
I remember, it was great! Way ahead of its time!

17 May 2023 at 20:02 | Open on m.tweepsmap.com
Ffyon
Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

@Ffyon @evan Yeah, for sure. I really loved the community and overall experience on Identica. The spam was troubling though.

17 May 2023 at 20:03 | Open on fosstodon.org
Evan Prodromou

@atoponce @Ffyon really bad. We managed to get it under control with some distributed moderation and Bayesian filtering, though. It was a big reason the pump.io interface downplays public space.

17 May 2023 at 20:03 | Open on cosocial.ca
Ffyon

@atoponce @evan same, really felt part of something there, and crypto spam is now hitting me here

17 May 2023 at 20:31 | Open on ohai.social
Steve Scotten

@evan If I’d known that you would have plans to make Pump do ActivityPub I’d have kept Awkwardly Social as a Pump site and offered my time and energy to make it happen. It wasn’t a task I was willing to take on by myself. I guess it makes me a bit of a jerk to tell you that now, not having a stake in Pump anymore.

17 May 2023 at 19:48 | Open on makersocial.online
Craig Maloney ☕

@evan Thank you for giving me some of the best experiences on social media, and for making Laconica, which was the application I championed for hosted applications at Sourceforge.

17 May 2023 at 20:08 | Open on octodon.social
Evan Prodromou
Craig Maloney ☕

@evan 😊 Thank you for making it possible and an obvious choice. 😀

17 May 2023 at 21:30 | Open on octodon.social
Tim Chambers

@evan Bet this original post is still public, readable, and working FAR after the first proprietary tweet and the first FB or IG post is just in some internet archive and functionally only readable there.

#OpenWeb for the win.

17 May 2023 at 21:18 | Open on indieweb.social
Joshua Chalifour

@evan that's wild. Seeing this prompted me to try logging in... I had an account from 14 years ago but I guess I lost track of it somewhere along the way. fun to see how things have evolved.

17 May 2023 at 21:36 | Open on cosocial.ca
Evan Prodromou

@owlyph sometime in 2013 or so when I switched to pump.io I also cut down to the 200K or so accounts that had been active in the previous 24 months. So, a lot of folks who tried it and didn't come back no longer have accounts.

17 May 2023 at 21:40 | Open on cosocial.ca
Erik

@evan @owlyph like me. Ring2 Was my handle.

I am so glad to be Finally back.

17 May 2023 at 21:52 | Open on stpauli.social
Matthias Pfefferle

@evan I can’t believe that identi.ca is 15 years old! This was OpenMicroBlogging times, wasn’t it? I think OStatus was 2010.

17 May 2023 at 22:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Matthias Pfefferle
Thomas Gideon :cmdln:

@evan @webmink Thanks for helping us start to see all those years ago what is coming so much more into focus now and will only get better, especially when identi.ca catches up with all these riotous and lovely grandchildren.

17 May 2023 at 23:06 | Open on thecommandline.social
Thomas Gideon :cmdln:

@evan @webmink And nieces, nephews, siblings, cousins of all degrees, let alone independently convergent evolved species of no relation... :totoro:

17 May 2023 at 23:09 | Open on thecommandline.social
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
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