I wonder if the first days of SMTP were like this—people sending emails to each other in amazement that messages could reach people on other servers.
I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where others were from, then sit there in awe. "HONEY, I'm talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!"
And here I am in Ireland reading your message now
Go to bed
I made my honey look.
a/s/l - the classic first message from anyone in 2001.
Interesting times we’re are coming to, folks!
I was on usenet in the 90s. It was WILD. I remember trying to explain it to my mom, and she just didn’t quite grasp it. When I told her I was talking to someone from Germany, she asked if she was gonna have to pay for that, because it was long distance. Bless her heart.
I saw "Blackberry" yesterday and it was a really good experience putting you in the context of those times.
There is one scene where they type a message and wait for it to show up on another device. After a few seconds, it is there and every engineer in the room celebrates.
Then, management/sales guy comes in and they tell about what they've just done. He goes yeah, nice, but we do it already, it's called SMS.
The engineers then say that he is not getting the point. It was a message sent through the network using data, 0 dollars and all and salesman's eye get brighter.
So yes, I think the sensation was alike.
Hi from Lemmyworld 👍
We were here for history
I was lounging in my recliner when it happened!
Laying on me couch!
Hello from my personal instance!
How interesting! It's nice to see the Fediverse in action.
Hello from feddit.uk!
Woah, so the big 3 (Mastodon, Kbin, and Lemmy) of the fediverse text/discussion-based social media can all used from a single account/feed. That's awesome!
Absolutely wild that this works lmao, ActivityPub is crazy
I’d love to get an explanation of how you made this work, because when I attempt to even follow my Mastodon account from Lemmy, it does not work.
Hi from lemmy.ml. The fediverse is so awesome!
Oh wow, it actually works!
That’s how the fediverse works isn’t it?
Yeah but the different platforms still have to implement translation between the different data structures if I understand correctly.
Like peertube federation became available in May 2022
Helloo from yiffit.net (browse cautiously)
Here is a response from lemm.ee
Hi there from lemmy!
what a time to be alive
Hello from the devil’s house on Lemmy!
I WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT. Hi. Hello. Seriously cool this is possible though!
How'd you do that?!
@Squiglet just the power of the fediverse, I guess. Also posting this reply from mastodon.
Welcome! So glad to have you!
It did! That's impressive
Someone posts "fediverse posts are federated" gets 400 up votes.
Howdy from lemm.ee!
It's so nice to see people excited about this! It feels like forever since something has come along that shook things up (in a good way).
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy