That's a cool timeline! And you actually have a receipt for "fediverse" in 2012-05, that's awesome.
I agree that it wasn't in general use. The skilledtests group "fediverse", e.g., wasn't created until 2013-07.
My timeline is based on people who were there agreeing that by the time Katsma was using it on Twitter in 2013-01, it had an established meaning.
The term was in use before identi.ca left OStatus, as people were creating more servers and moving away ahead of time. I haven't been able to find a hard source for that claim though, sorry.
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2024-05-15 03:12:57
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