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1. tuttle (tuttle@somsants.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 07:37:01 UTC tuttle

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   Does anyone know if the history of the !fediverse is properly documented? Where can new users who are interested find out?
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   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 08:07:28 UTC kat

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     History of indy.im
     
     I joined identi.ca late 2009 ? early 2010 ?  I'd always been interested in self-hosting and maintaining autonomous services, so set up indy.im. in October 2010. There were several motivations at the time. 
     * So I could run my own bots.  I had some on identi.ca but they kept being blocked/banned; which was fair enough.
     * As a proxy into twitter - so users could keep their own data, and to obfuscate location/ip addresses
     * as a mobile interface to UK #indymedia. I published  a customised version of the mustard android apk, branded it with an indymedia logo, and hardwired some login credentials in it. Activists could use it on early smart phones and publish short pieces of news and photos to indy.im.  The RSS for these would be pulled into the national/regional indymedia's
     * And as a personal microblog thing.
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 08:12:21 UTC kat

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     @luke @bobjonkman @veg05 @mcscx2 @therubackup @kat @morph @mmn @zoowar @grmpyoldman @ghostdancer @tuttle @merce 
     
     quitter.se was older than indy.im by a few months. And before quitter.se existed I remember microb.se https://web.archive.org/web/20090609034651/http://microb.es:80/
     
     Sometime towards the end of 2011 news that identi.ca was changing started spreading. There was a push by lot's of North American users to selfhost. Sites like fragdev appeared. I think the oldest remaining one of those is Gomertronic http://dent.gomertronic.com/notice/1
     
     @jezra started selfhosting at that time ?  
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 08:49:00 UTC kat

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     @bob I think the history is missing an early federation wave that predates quitter. @lnxw48a1 @gomerx @jezra @johnnynull are around from that.  Fall 2011
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 09:03:50 UTC kat

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     @bob @jezra @lnxw48a1 yeah .. sometime around StatusNet 0.9 and before 1.0.0
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 18:54:20 UTC kat

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     @jezra @lnxw48a1 @bob http://status.jezra.net/notice/1 ;-)