All this porn and this place isn't even 18 yet?
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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😅😅😅 Yep, still a minor in most countries.
There's federated porn? 0.o
2008 wasn't 17 years ago........it was.......holy shit. 2008 was 17 years ago. What the fuck.
I think we entered a portal and appeared in 2025, that's why 2008 was only 6 months ago. 😅
It's too bad it didn't take off in the early days of social media. I wonder how the world would look today if that were the case.
Yeah.
Although there were already discussions about it as early as 2005 (and earlier), Loic and company had been hosting a Web3 conference in France ("Le Web3") for a few years back then. (The real Web3, not the crypto-Web3. < this is why many, if not most, Fediverse devs don't like crypto, the crypto enthusiasts stole "Web3")
The discussions revolved around: #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #SocialWeb and Federation. It was how Web2 was actually envisioned by Tim, father of WWW, to be a federated social network but big corps took over and Web2 became closed social networks.
Lastly, the first approaches were through tech that existing networks were encouraged to implement. For example, few people remember the "Open Social" set of technologies. The SNS platforms who applied Open Social were Hi5 and Google+ to mention two.
In addition, before the #Bluesky "Open Social"—to promote #ATproto —there already was an #OpenSocial. Before the current Social Web came to be, the label was already being used in the early 2000s for similar purposes but larger and more inclusive.
(Note: trying to remember things from back then)
UPDATE from @drspod@lemmy.ml
Although there were already discussions about it as early as 2005 (and earlier), Loic and company had been hosting a Web3 conference in France (“Le Web3”) for a few years back then. (The real Web3, not the crypto-Web3. < this is why many, if not most, Fediverse devs don’t like crypto, the crypto enthusiasts stole “Web3”)
I think you've retconned a little bit here. LeWeb3 was named as a sequel to the previous conference which was called LeBlogs2. Remember, at that time Web 2.0 hadn't really taken off yet - browsers had only just implemented the XMLHTTPRequest API - so it wouldn't have made sense to already be talking about Web 3.0.
Here is an original document containing some history of LeWeb3: https://web.archive.org/web/20070704054929/http://www.loiclemeur.com/LeWeb3executivesummaryv1.pdf
Seventeen years!? God dayum!
And here I thought the Fediverse was 6-7 years old tops. Wild that the concept is just now starting to gain traction.
I only heard of it a year ago.
I still hate the name "fediverse". I love the concept, hate the name.
It's okay to create your own name :) Some people refer the place as social web, some others create original name in their own language.
Holy crap... TIL I was missing out for the better part of two decades
Wow what a surprise!
Let’s hope it takes off and remains there for a really long time with a bit more users.
Thanks for calling out that it's not The Mastodon Network™, no matter how much Gargron wishes ot were so.