@jackyan thanks for the reminder! Alas, that nonprofit group blog, AltPlatform, didn't last long. But it did make me check out the open web initiatives of the time, like Mastodon and . Here's a copy of that June 2017 post you referenced: web.archive.org/web/2017062406

@ricmac @pkboi I can’t remember where I started but I know I was at Mastodon.social by June 2017 (the Wayback Machine’s first is July 2017 and those posts are marked ‘1 month ago’). I remember selecting servers prior to Mastodon so I wonder if that was Hubzilla or something else on the fediverse. It wasn’t a big thing then so I will have some pre-Mastodon dormant accounts lying about somewhere …