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Someone reminded me today 9 years ago I submitted my first post on Mastodon—using curl on the command line, since there was no interface at the time. That's how the journey began! 9 years is a long time to be doing something. Those early years are still fresh in my mind though.

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

Was it @stefan with this post? 😉
stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…


Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!

Via stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…

#mastodon #fediverse #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay


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Tingo
And I fucking hate being reminded of that shit, to the point of blanking it.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

a long way. Im new here but we need to promote mastodoj on reddit
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Eugen Rochko
@Blanco What kind of question is that? I make 60K EUR a year.
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Eugen Rochko
@fixatedpersonsunit What are you talking about?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Not meant as an insult, only a sarcastic joke. I always get in trouble with my sense of humor. But, didn't Bill Gates start in his garage? You should become an Olygarch, you would be one of the good ones.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Huh, I might have found it somewhat early then. I was on mastodon.technology for a few years before it was shut down.
in reply to Julio 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇺 🇪🇸 🇺🇸

@Blanco I see, I appreciate the sentiment, but I think there may be confusion about the word. Oligarch means someone who rules; I have no intention of ever getting involved in politics.
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Eugen Rochko
@fixatedpersonsunit I think this happened in your mind. Mastodon never teamed up or made any deals with Meta. I am, however, in favour of adversarial interoperability which is one of the foundational principles of the fediverse.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Yes, there is confusion in the word. I think of it as someone who has so much money that they can rule. Someone always rules, it might as well be someone good.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

thank you for all the work you've put into this.
The same obviously goes to everyone who has helped the Fediverse grow and mature.

I'm truly grateful.

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

I'm glad you built an interface. There would certainly be fewer of us here if we still had to use curl. 😏
in reply to Eugen Rochko

it would be nice to know how to post using curl on the command line. Is it still possible and documented?
in reply to Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱

@dimpase Yeah, it's actually exactly the same now as it was then, the API never had to change! You need to get an API key and POST to /api/v1/statuses with the right params. There's documentation.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@dimpase I do it (with curl and from Java) to provide the public service that I used to on Twitter, in the before times! Thank you for keeping an open simple interface for posting.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Greetings! Thank you for creating and releasing Mastodon for everyone to build communities, make connections, and support a decentralized Internet. I’m really curious about the long-term vision for Mastodon. As the network grows, what are some of the things the development team is most excited about building or improving, while still staying true to the principles of decentralization and user control?

#mastodon #fediverse #decentralization #socialmedia #opensource #opensourcesoftware

in reply to Eugen Rochko

you are the opposite of an oligarch. Don't let the haters occupy your thought space. Thank you for adding Threads @Blanco If you don't want Threads it is quite simple. Create or join a server that does not federate with Threads.
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Eugen Rochko
@fixatedpersonsunit You'd rather people switch to Threads?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Wait, there are actually interfaces? I can use other tools than cURL?
in reply to Stefan Ritter

Since a few days ago you can mount Mastodon as a filesystem:

icosahedron.website/@halcy/114…


this is not a joke. behold the power of mastofuse, a file system mastodon client: gist.github.com/halcy/b4f455ef…
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in reply to Eugen Rochko

Thank you for creating this beautiful universe for us all :blobcatheart:
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@bagder you can add this to your list of curl usages. Well kind of. First Mastodon post!
in reply to Eugen Rochko

What was the requests? "hello world"? 😉
However, thanks a lot 🙂
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Thanks for having the humility and foresight to hand over control of Mastodon's future to a group rather than a single person.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Congratulations! 🎉🥳
And thank you for your hard work and for your wonderful creation.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Congratulations, and thank you for your part in building this life boat!
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Congratulations - a huge achievement.
I hope you are celebrating.
And 'Thank You'
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Tens of millions of us you for your pioneering post 9 years ago!
in reply to Eugen Rochko

thanks for all the job you've done in #mastodon and the inspiration for many others who are improving the #fediverse! 🫶🏻
in reply to Eugen Rochko

yea, struggling to understand how this is a "deal".

Also, should we not be raving about ActivityPub getting more traction?

At the end of the day, none of us have to join threads, and those of us that are admins, can opt to block.

Edit: I forget users can block another instance from their account too.

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

I see you're getting a lot of hate in the replies here for various reasons. But i just wanted to say:
I'm glad you made mastodon and help start this fedi revolution
in reply to Eugen Rochko

- nice. Remember when you was hanging around my two GNU Social projects - gnusocial.no / .net and quitter.no 😀 - Great work with Mastodon!
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in reply to Eugen Rochko

is curl still viable for posting btw? And congats, @bagder himself is on Mastodon afaik
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@fixatedpersonsunit It was (and is) a good way of thinking, and in the long run is a good decision
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Thank you for your hard work and for never losing yourself despite hostile reactions!
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I bet. I love that it began with curl. Thanks for persisting. 🙏🏻
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I was just thinking about how long I’ve been creating webpages (although I wasn’t good at all in the beginning). Suffice to say, it’s been a long time. I still remember the early days myself. A long time ago; but also seems like yesterday.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

i hope you kept a screenshot, or kept the "first post!" itself

soon to be in Mainz Germany at the Gutenberg Museum next to the old printing presses

same energy

in reply to Eugen Rochko

I thought Mastodon had like, 4-5 years at the most.

Damn, 2016 feels like a long time ago.

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Поздравляю, бро. Я твой должник по жизни. Встретимся когда-нибудь - я проставляюсь.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Thank you for all your hard work! Also, thank you for giving us a alternative to X.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I have a dumb question or I may be bit data nerd, I will check Admin Docs.

How can I monitor how many new users joining in particular mastodon servers? I don’t own a server as of now. But I am thinking of hosting one. Can I export such data to my dashboard like Grafana for the servers I own and don’t own through any open API?

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