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Fediverse history piece from 2017: A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’
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As Strypey acknowledges, there's a lot he didn't know about at the time and left out. Before Mastodon: GNU Social and other early fediverses includes a lot of that.