On 2008-05-18 15:49:33, the father of the #Fediverse and creator of #ActivityPub, Evan Prodromou, sent the first ever message in what was later called the "Fediverse" social network (not Mastodon® social network).

• The first software was called Laconica.
• The first instance was Identica.
• The first prototol was OpenMicroBlogging.
• The first label/name was Identiverse social network.

Here is the archived post: This is my first post.

The network never went down. From the first protocol, OpenMicroBlogging, it switched to the protocol OStatus (also by Evan), then to ActivityPub as most know it today. It's exactly the same social network since 2008!

Happy 17th Year Anniversary Fediverse network!

#FediverseDay #FediverseMonth #MayIsFediverseMonth

This project has been around since July of 2022. It's an alternative interface for Lemmy using phpBB hence «lemmyBB».

I just checked today and the dev archived it last February 2025 and the last commit (besides the archiving and readme) was in 2022.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Just a concerned Fediverse citizen, maybe someone is interested in continuing/forking it. Alternative interfaces used to be popular in the early 00s for mrny projects. But these days, we often see the same frontend, just a different theme/colours.

Who knows, all good things start small and humbly, maybe one day it'll become popular and in demand.