"It’s one thing to argue that ActivityPub is “the future of the social web” […] but it’s an altogether different bit of self-puffery and disrespect to claim that ActivityPub is the social web.
Blogs were the social web. Friendster was the social web. MySpace was the social web. Twitter was the social web."
https://bix.blog/posts/holy-hell-the-social-web-did-not-begin-in-2008
#fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online online forums and web-rings were the social web too!
And what about multi-user dialup BBSes in the '80s?