Stefan Haydn"Seeing as there is a new attempt to completely erase my fediverse work from history, here's a brief timeline..."<br><br>2010 Brought DMs and groups to the fediverse. (Prior to this they did not federate).<br>2010 Brought the concepts of permission and consent to the fediverse.<br>2010 Brought directory services to the fediverse.<br>2010 Brought comment controls to the fediverse.<br>2010 Brought quoted posts to the fediverse.<br>2010 Brought circles/aspects to the fediverse. (Before Diaspora or Google+).<br>2010 Created single sign-on across decentralised fediverse nodes (providing fully decentralised access control)<br>2010 provided access controlled assets and services in the fediverse - including media<br>2010-2011 federated with all the things - including "connections" with RSS and email, Diaspora, Status.Net, and cross-posting to lots of open providers via plugins.<br>2011 Brought Facebook (unwillingly) into the fediverse. Shout-out to Tobias for helping with Twitter.<br>2011 Started work on fediverse nomadic identity after nearly half the known network suddenly vanished in the space of a week when some high profile large sites shut down with little or no warning and with no migration ability. Migration is half the solution - it is still subject to unannounced shutdowns.<br>2012 Created the Zot protocol to encrypt all fediverse communications over the wire and expose as little meta-data as possible, while fully supporting nomadic identity.<br>2012 Federated/connected the fediverse and WordPress (posts and comments in both directions).<br>2013 Turned all file storage into access controlled WebDAV nodes so you could upload private media through drag-drop from any device.<br>2014 Browser-to-browser encryption arrives in the fediverse. E2EE framework completed. We don't provide E2EE ourselves because we're not at the endpoint.<br>2015 Implemented dynamic groups. ("Send this post to male German connections only" or "only send to folks who are using the Diaspora protocol") <br>2016 Provided (sanitised) inline SVG support over the fediverse, allowing quick doodles and drawings in posts/comments.<br>2016 Mastodon arrives in the fediverse and proceeds to embrace, extend, and extinguish all that came before.<br>2016 Private groups<br>2017 Demonstrated e-commerce in the fediverse.<br>2017 first ever demonstration of ActivityPub posts and comments federating (NextCloud made these claims, but used ActivityStreams and not actually ActivityPub).<br>2017 Mastodon converts to ActivityPub<br>2018 ActivityPub spec finalised.<br>2019 Removed completely from fediverse history through a re-definition of the word on wikipedia<br>2019 Re-implemented the Zot protocol to use ActivityStreams2 content, and turned magic-auth into Open WebAuth based on old, but still viable standards.<br>2021 demo of fediverse identity manager - aggregate and republish content from all your fediverse identities.<br>2022 Rejection of brands, marketing, and licenses after the EEE fiasco. Which fediverse brands own you?<br>2023-2024 Implementation of conversation containers over ActivityPub<br>2024-2025 Brought nomadic identity to ActivityPub and retired the Zot/Nomad protocol family.<br>2025 Removal of content by third-party spammers which leaked into the fediverse through a spam relay called "Mastodon" and that folks using said spam relay now worship as cultural icons<br><br>#<a class="" href="https://hub.hayfidelity.de/search?tag=mikemacgirvin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mikemacgirvin</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hayfidelity.de/search?tag=appreciation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">appreciation</a>