2023-05-16 UTC
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bkil petermolnar: The birthday of The Fediverse is 2008-07-02 (please add it to your calendar!) over the federation protocol called "OpenMicroBlogging". This was the date of the first running public deployment of the FOSS Laconica (to later become StatusNet and GNU Social over the years) also powering identi.ca, being federated by outside parties within 1 day of release. The second wave was started around 2010 by Diaspora and Friendica by the time millions of users