What's the earliest founded organization (including countries and public services) to have an "official" account on the fediverse? (I mean the founding date of the org not the account)
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@liaizon Oxford Political Review has a Mastodon account; and it's technically a part of Oxford University, a school that goes back at least to 1096 (earliest factual evidence) if not earlier. The publication itself, however, only dates back to 2018, so I'm not sure if this counts.
@liaizon
I guess noone can beat https://universeodon.com/@godpod
@liaizon Founded 741/742 😇 (js)
@liaizon I think the best candidate would be some Roman Catholic diocesis. Regarding German dioceses, there is an account for @bistumtrier, which dates back to Roman antiquity, although I cannot decide whether it is an official account. @bistumpassau, @bistumwuerzburg, @BistumAugsburg were all founded the 8th century. There might me many accounts for very old dioceses in other countries as well.
@liaizon Catholic church?
@dantescanline @liaizon What's their account?
@raucao no idea hahaha was just a suggestion, figured they might have an account
The University of Padova was founded in 1222! They are at @unipd, which puts them as my top running contender for the oldest organization to have a fediverse account. If you can think of any older organizations that are pressent here let me know! Thanks @Uilebheist for your research in finding them!
Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier dates back to 250AD ( @bistumtrier)
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Würzburg was founded in 741 or early 742AD ( @bistumwuerzburg)
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Augsburg dates back to possibly the 11th century but seems the exact date is uncertain ( @BistumAugsburg)
Thanks for discovering these accounts @steffenloewe!
@nemobis @steffenloewe is thete a good way to query wikidata for the combination of age of organization + existence of fediverse account?
@liaizon Well of course you can in SPARQL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service . For your first SPARQL query maybe you can start by taking inspiration from an existing one, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis/Queries
@liaizon @unipd @Uilebheist I hope my high school alma mater registers an account, we started in 1085 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katedralskolan,_Lund
@liaizon @unipd @Uilebheist
There are some Japanese business which have operated since the 900's CE which might be worth checking to see if they have an account.
The absolute record would have to be Kongo Gumi (578 CE) assuming they have an account 😁🤷♂️
@jk @liaizon @wikidata @WikidataFacts Univeresity of Padua https://mastodon.uno/@unipd has been founded in 1222.
@liaizon Age of organization or age of account?
@SRLevine age of organization
@liaizon Might be the University of Groningen's Library @Bibliothecaris if they are technically the same age as the university itself?
@SRLevine @liaizon We're 6 months younger than the University of Groningen. We were founded in February 1615, just celebrated our 410th anniversary 😊 https://www.rug.nl/library/heritage/our-history/
@Bibliothecaris @SRLevine @liaizon
If you're counting bots, @samuelpepys is at least in the same century as @Bibliothecaris - only just writing 50 years later 🧐
@chris @eff hmm well @BBCRadio4 was founded 1967, but I am pretty sure we can get back to at least the 1700s.
@liaizon @eff @BBCRadio4 Oh I thought you meant joined, lol! BBC is very old, so you're probably right on that one. I follow a lot of tech accounts, so probably none of those apply. I thought EFF was old, but they were only founded in 2013.
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