History of the Fediverse

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Year	New software	New protocol	Websites	non-Fediverse news	Other
2008	identi.ca GNU Social	OStatus
2009
2010	Mistpark (later re-named Friendika, re-named Friendica in 2011) diaspora*
2011	pump.io	Zot
2012	Red (forked from Friendica; later re-named Red Matrix)
2013
2014
2015	Hubzilla (forked from the Red Matrix)
2016	Mastodon Pleroma
2017			The Federation Zotlabs.com
2018	PeerTube Pixelfed Funkwhale WriteFreely Osada (I) (forked from the Red Matrix) Zap (forked from Osada (I)) Osada (II) (forked from Zap)	ActivityPub Zot6
2019	Lemmy MissKey		SocialHub	Gab forked Mastodon	Osada officially abandoned
2020	Mistpark 2020, also known as Misty (most likely forked from Zap) Osada (III) (forked from Zap or Misty) Redmatrix 2020, later also known as Redmatrix/Nomad (most likely forked from Osada (III))
2021	Ecko Roadhouse (probably forked from Zap or Redmatrix 2020) The Streams repository (forked from Roadhouse)	Nomad (originally Zot11)	Fediverse Observer	Truth Social forked Mastodon
2022	CalcKey (forked from MissKey; re-named Firefish in 2023) Takahē		This wiki Zotlabs.com shut down	Elon Musk buys Twitter and there is a mass exodus to the Fediverse Tumblr and Flickr announce plans to join the Fediverse	2022-12-31: End of life for the Zotlabs projects Osada, Zap, Redmatrix 2020, Misty and Roadhouse
2023	/kbin			release of Threads
2024				Threads connects to Fediverse
2025

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