Parade du Grotesque 💀Fidonet and Usenet were the Fediverse, way before there was a fediverse.
At about the same time Fidonet was created, NSFNET was also launched.
A lot of people have forgotten that there has always been networks run by individuals and for individuals.
Chirp! is a GNU Social instance for the Cooley and Sekula families and their friends.
Chirp! is a social network. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.1-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All Chirp! content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.