#parlementum — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parlementum, aggregated by home.social.
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It's #ThrowbackThursday again! (Or, #WaybackWednesday for the majority of the planet (as of this post)).
Back in the “first generation” (2008–2012) (just my personal grouping, not set in stone) of the #fediverse, one of the first to provide different services for the public was parlementum_net.
#Parlementum provided the following services:
* #StatusNet instance* #Friendica instance
* #TTRSS instance
* Email
The driving force back then was not a person (like Musk, today) but corporations and freedom.
Here are some:
* The license of your post / status update, was a big thing. “Do you really own your own content in Twitter and Facebook?”* #DeGoogle yourself. Made very evident to be important when Google announced the sunsetting of Google Reader. TT-RSS gained a lot of attention as the alternative.
Another one in the DeGoogle movement was Google Photos (was it called that already?) #MediaGoblin gained a lot of attention as the replacement. (JPope was the most prominent advocate for MediaGoblin.)
* The use of pseudonyms. It was a huge issue when services like Facebook strictly enforced the use of real names. Parlementum provided a safe-haven in the fediverse for those who needs their #privacy through the use of handles.
I'm sure I've forgotten a lot of other stuff of that period. But, it should give you an idea that the fight to take back our [Internet] freedom has been going on for 20 years now.
If these great people (advocates, personalities, developers, communities, non-profits) gave up the fight, the Fediverse as we know it today would not be here, or might look far differently. Imagine that, and think of the 2022 #TwitterMigration. ;)
Have a great Thursday!