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
Timeline could include referenced dates for:
Identica/ pump.io/ GNU social
2008 XEP-xxxx: Microblogging Over XMPP (published 2008-05-07)
Founding of Laconica/ Identica project
Publication of OpenMicroBlogging spec
Rebranding as StatusNet/ OStatus: https://web.archive.org/web/20090831073527/http://status.net/2009/08/28/laconica-is-now-statusnet/
Publication of OStatus spec
Publication of pump.io spec
Identi.ca switched to pump.io
Forking of Free & Social
Founding of GNU social
Merger of StatusNet, and Free & Social, into GNU social
Diaspora
Founding of Diaspora project
Crowdfunding success on Kickstarter
First Diaspora pod
Publication of Diaspora spec
Friendica/ Hubzilla/ Zap
Founding of Mistpark project
Publication of DFRN spec
Rebrand to Friendika
Rebrand to Friendica
Launch of RedMatrix project