History of the Fediverse

Table

Year	Notable new software	New protocol	Websites	General news	Other
2008	identi.ca GNU Social	OStatus
2009
2010	Friendica diaspora*
2011	pump.io
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016	Mastodon Pleroma
2017			The Federation
2018	PeerTube Pixelfed Funkwhale WriteFreely Hubzilla	ActivityPub
2019	Lemmy Misskey		SocialHub	Gab forked Mastodon
2020
2021	Ecko		Fediverse Observer	Truth Social forked Mastodon
2022	Calckey Takahē		This wiki	Elon Musk buys Twitter and there is a mass exodus to the Fediverse Tumblr and Flickr announce plans to join the Fediverse
2023	Threads