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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Hey , what are the *longest continuously running* instances out there?

Pretty sure there are some that's been active for 10+ years. Which ones?

Context: Friendica has been around long before Mastodon, long before ActivityPub, and was always amazing about implementing open protocols of other networks.

It's now part of fedi, but also fedi's very real connection to the days of yore, when OStatus was a thing and the Earth was young.

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@rysiek@mstdn.social there was also another one and i wonder if anyone still uses it.

'gnu social' or something like that ...(looks up)... ah ya it's 'gnu social'.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@logan yeah, formerly known as StatusNet. It implemented OStatus. I don't think it ever implemented ActivityPub, though, which would mean it is not a part of fedi.

It's the past that Friendica connects fedi to. I had an account on a StatusNet instance back in the day.

Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
ostatus is the original fediverse. activitypub was an upgrade, that created a gap that needed bridging, very much like the gap introduced along with pump.io. mastodon eventually implemented activitypub and later on defederated from ostatus (hostile move IMHO), but IMHO neither mastodon nor activitypub define fediverse. I prefer a more expansive and, should we say, diverse understanding of the meaning of fediverse. there are some compatibility hurdles there, no doubt, but if we were to go for strict activitypub compliance, mastodon 4.0+, with not-quite-compatible "edit" feature, would likely be out
Hypolite Petovan
@rysiek This is a hard question to answer, because the project went through several phases and names. And with the update system, any original Mistpark or Friendika instance would now be an indistinguishable Friendica instance.

Maybe @tobias knows? Or @alfred ?
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