Over on kind.social user f00fc7c8 posted an interesting summary of the history of Mastodon & the fediverse, starting with before Mastodon and before the ActivityPub standard. It’s not a complete one and mostly focuses on the path to Mastodon (so Diaspora and some even earlier federated things like Usenet aren’t mentioned which makes sense).

Interestingly, I forgot about identi.ca, which I did use in the past and then ended up staying on Twitter! I even still have a diaspora account kicking around somewhere… anyway.

Check it out here: https://kind.social/@f00fc7c8/109407989829565640

i get that posts here are designed to be like. less Enagement Metric'd but also sometimes i make a post and want the validation of others seeing it lmao. twitter letting me have like 5 or 6 people be like "Like" makes my brain go "ooo" and it's hard to remind myself i've always been screaming at a wall, actually

Just absolutely ANNIHILATED the mosquitoes in my house with an electric fly swatter, now it needs to be recharged and my right thumb is shaking furiously.

I had resorted to speech to text to write this post.