User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/A timeline of events related to Mastodon

A timeline of events related to Mastodon (software) and Eugen Rochko This sandbox page is to be deleted when the main page article A timeline of events related to Mastodon is stable.

1990s

 * 1993 Eugen Rochko was born in a Jewish family of Russian origin,

2000s

 * 2004 He moved with his family to Jena? in Germany at the age of eleven. He attended the grammar school in Jena
 * 2008 He became an avid Twitter user.

2010s
2016 2017 2018
 * 2010? Rochko studied computer science at Friedrich-Schiller University, a public university in Jena.
 * He became a registered member of GitHub
 * In his youth he was active on networks such as MySpace, schülerVZ, Facebook, Twitter, and ICQ.
 * 1 May 2013 schülerVZ shutdown as users were migrating to competitors Facebook or Twitter.
 * Rochko became "dissatisfied with the state and direction of Twitter".
 * 16 March Rochko released Mastodon, according to GitHub records.
 * Rochko graduated from studied Friedrich-Schiller University
 * Mastodon project's initial support came via Patreon allowing Rochko to begin "working on the project full-time post-graduation".
 * October Mastodon's "first public launch".
 * 4 April Mastodon membership increased from 23,000 to over 35,000 and gained media attention. Rochko's Patreon goal of $800 a month was reached. Graham Linehan and Dan Harmon became members according to an April 2017 Vice News article.
 * 6 April According to Quartz, Mastodon's popularity increased in response to Twitter users' dissatisfaction with Twitter. This included changes to Twitter's user interface (UI) in the confusing new way in which it handled mentions. Users were also critical of the "general abuse" proliferating on Twitter.
 * 8 December ActivityPub, which is a W3C standard, and uses JSON as its primary serialization spec, is the underlying protocol for Mastodon and PeerTube, was favored by the "distributed social networking crowd" in response to unpopular centralized social networks.

2020s
2022
 * 27 October Elon Musk formalized his takeover of Twitter.
 * By 1 November about 70,000 new users joined Mastodon.
 * By 8 November Mastodon has doubled its membership with the influx of almost 500,000 new users.