It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that. 🫤
@evan Very cool to see this bit of Internet history.
This reminded me to go back through my identi.ca timeline to try to find my first post there. It was apparently 15 years ago, but I can't seem to retrieve the post to get the date.
Thank you a lot for having built this place and delivered it publicly. This was my first real experience with social media where I felt home (only had a look to FB because I was incited to, but didn’t really used it).
Good surprise to see my account is still there :) With some luck, I followed the migration to Pump.io, it was at a time I took some distance from computers (except for everyday work).
@evan I used identi.ca in 2009-2010. I really loved the idea (specially the groups, that was a great innovation) but I wasn't able to convince my friends to use it and my network was very limited. I've just found in archive.org my 2010 post saying that I was migrating back to Twitter 😅
@evan that's wild. Seeing this prompted me to try logging in... I had an account from 14 years ago but I guess I lost track of it somewhere along the way. fun to see how things have evolved.
@owlyph sometime in 2013 or so when I switched to pump.io I also cut down to the 200K or so accounts that had been active in the previous 24 months. So, a lot of folks who tried it and didn't come back no longer have accounts.
@evan Bet this original post is still public, readable, and working FAR after the first proprietary tweet and the first FB or IG post is just in some internet archive and functionally only readable there.
@evan Thank you for giving me some of the best experiences on social media, and for making Laconica, which was the application I championed for hosted applications at Sourceforge.
@evan If I’d known that you would have plans to make Pump do ActivityPub I’d have kept Awkwardly Social as a Pump site and offered my time and energy to make it happen. It wasn’t a task I was willing to take on by myself. I guess it makes me a bit of a jerk to tell you that now, not having a stake in Pump anymore.
@atoponce@Ffyon really bad. We managed to get it under control with some distributed moderation and Bayesian filtering, though. It was a big reason the pump.io interface downplays public space.
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