🔗 Holy Hell, The Social Web Did Not Begin In 2008 - Bix Dot Blog

The web has been social for a very long time, and it’s astonishingly brazen for ActivityWeb partisans to move to claim the banner for themselves just because your average web user doesn’t understand what the hell is a “fediverse”. I know it drives ActivityWeb partisans batshit that everyone just says “Mastodon” because that’s the single most popular (if I can even use such a word in this context) ActivityWeb implementation, but the answer isn’t to degrade and disdain the years of social web that existed well before ActivityPub ever became a thing.

Agreed. It does seem a bit pompous to pretend that ActivityPub was the beginning.