general update

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Existing sources:
* articles on the Chronicles/ Knowledge pages of the site
* WeDistribute
* Strypey's 'brief history' blog piece: http://web.archive.org/web/20190617225539/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2017/04/01/a-brief-history-of-the-gnu-social-fediverse-and-the-federation
* Strypey's 'brief history' blog piece: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fediverse-history-piece-from-2017-a-brief-history-of-the-gnu-social-fediverse-and-the-federation/4481
* The Mycelial Web timeline by TechMagus: https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns/src/branch/main/mycelial-web-history.markdown
Timeline could include referenced dates for:
*Identica/ pump.io/ GNU social*
*2008*
[XEP-xxxx: Microblogging Over XMPP (published 2008-05-07)](https://web.archive.org/web/20090227094012/http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/microblogging.html)
* OStatus/ Identica/ GNU social*
Founding of Laconica/ Identica project
@ -19,8 +17,6 @@ Rebranding as StatusNet/ OStatus: https://web.archive.org/web/20090831073527/htt
Publication of OStatus spec
Publication of pump.io spec
Identi.ca switched to pump.io
Forking of Free & Social
@ -29,6 +25,16 @@ Founding of GNU social
Merger of StatusNet, and Free & Social, into GNU social
Founding of Qvitter, and the Quitter instances (quitter.se etc)
Founding of Pleroma
Founding of postActiv
Founding of Mastodon
Friendica/ Hubzilla adding OStatus compatibility
*Diaspora*
@ -40,15 +46,62 @@ First Diaspora pod
Publication of Diaspora spec
Founding of SocialHome, and other apps that began as Diaspora alternative
*Friendica/ Hubzilla/ Zap*
Founding of Libertree (fork of Diaspora using its own protocol)
Friendica/ Hubzilla adding Diaspora compatibility
*Zot/ Friendica/ Hubzilla/ Zap*
Founding of Mistpark project
Publication of DFRN spec
Rebrand to Friendika
Rename to Friendika
Rebrand to Friendica
Rename to Friendica
Launch of RedMatrix project
Rename to Hubzilla
Forking of Zap and Osada
Sunsetting of Osada
Forking of app-commonly-known-as-streams
FEPs to add Zot functionality to AP
Forking of Forte
*ActivityPub/ pump.io*
Publication of Pump.Io Pump API spec
GNU MediaGoblin announces federation plans, inspired by GNU social and pump.io (somewhere in https://mediagoblin.org/news/)
"ActivityPump" proposed for standardisation at W3C (ActivityPump mentioned a few times here https://mediagoblin.org/news/)
Social Web Working group chartered
Name change to AP
2018: AP becomes a W3C recommendation in https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Mastodon announces AP support
Sean Tilley's canonical WD on the prospects of the "Activity-verse"
AP support announcments from each legacy project
Founding announcements from AP native projects
*XMPP on the web*
*2008*
[XEP-xxxx: Microblogging Over XMPP (published 2008-05-07)](https://web.archive.org/web/20090227094012/http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/microblogging.html)