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
