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📚 Mastodon HistoryBack in February 23rd, 2016 — Mastodon first described itself as:“Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project.”The history of Mastodon is tied to GNU Social.<a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md</a><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e</a><a href="/tags/deso/" rel="tag">#DeSo</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediversehistory/" rel="tag">#FediverseHIstory</a> <a href="/tags/gnusocial/" rel="tag">#GNUSocial</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/mastodonhistory/" rel="tag">#MastodonHistory</a>

Mastodon

Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project. Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon.

The core ideals of this project are:

• Independence of legacy Twitter APIs - we don't want to be compatible with Twitter clients, we want our own clients
• In that vein, a strong and clean REST API and OAuth2
• Minimalism. Just because you can do almost anything with ActivityStreams doesn't mean you should. Limit the set of possible functions to what makes sense in a microblogging engine. This will make federation as well as UI design a lot easier
• Ease of deployment. The end-goal of this project is to be distributable as a Docker image.

Current status of the project is early development. Documentation, licensing information &co will be added later

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Happy 17th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, by <a href="https://cosocial.ca/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@evan</a> <a href="https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg">https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg</a>Archived link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg">https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg</a><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/fediversehistory/" rel="tag">#FediverseHistory</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/identica/" rel="tag">#identica</a> <a href="/tags/firstpost/" rel="tag">#FirstPost</a> <a href="/tags/firstfediversepost/" rel="tag">#FirstFediversePost</a>

A screenshot of the first fediverse post from Evan Prodromou dated May 18, 2008, posted on the early fediverse platform Identica.

The text of the post is: "This is my first post."

Below the post is a partial list of people who liked and shared the post. Further below are license information about the Identica platform:

Identi.ca brought to you by E14N.
pump.io available under the Apache License 2.0.
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