10 years ago today the first #federated #IndieWeb comment thread was published and collected peer-to-peer IndieWeb replies across websites without any intermediary, silo or otherwise¹.

2013-04-19 @eschnou.com posted a brief note on his personal site with #atMentions of a few domains (putting an '@' sign immediately before a domain name to indicate an explicit cross-web @-mention), which itself was also a first²

 "Testing #indieweb federation with @waterpigs.co.uk, @aaronparecki.com and @indiewebcamp.com !"

When @aaronpk.com was notified and replied from his site within minutes³, it became the first peer-to-peer federated IndieWeb comment thread, at the time using h-entry and Pingback. I blogged about it a few days later⁴.

Earlier this year I blogged more observations of all the user interactions that happened on that day and shortly thereafter to make this all work: https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention

Unfortunately Laurent Eschnou’s original post is no longer up, and we only have the Internet Archive copy. However most of the IndieWeb reply posts are still up including Barnaby’s: https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1334/

The oldest still working federated post and comment thread was second overall, unsurprisingly from @aaronparecki.com⁵, a whole 40 days after Laurent’s first.

This is day 37 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days #OpenWeb #federation #fediverse

← Day 36: https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated
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Glossary

federation
 https://indieweb.org/federation
h-entry
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
Pingback
 https://indieweb.org/Pingback
reply post
 https://indieweb.org/reply

References

¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20130427010301/http://eschnou.com/entry/testing-indieweb-federation-with-waterpigscouk-aaronpareckicom-and--62-24908.html
² https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention
³ https://aaronparecki.com/2013/04/19/3/indieweb
⁴ https://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread
⁵ https://aaronparecki.com/2013/05/21/4/xkcd