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Sixteen 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.

aburka 🫣

@evan does it still federate? I pasted the identi.ca url into my Mastodon instance's search bar but it wasn't able to find it

@aburka identi.ca as of July 2013 runs the pump.io protocol.

The standardized ActivityPub ("AP") protocol the Fediverse of today runs on was based on the pump.io protocol, but is not compatible. For starters pump.io uses ActivityStreams 1 but AP uses ActivityStreams 2, which was developed alongside AP.

Here's hoping that one day pump.io will implement ActivityPub and identi.ca will join the Fediverse once again!

@evan