@maiyannah Btw to get the history straight:

1. Evan makes Laconica.
2. Evan gets funding, it turns into StatusNet, cool people contribute lots of code.
3. Matt thinks it's a cool project and does a PR thing with GNU so people get excited. No real development though, just some playing around by some excited people.
4. Evan no longer has funding and StatusNet dies.
5. I start having fun with the code and fork into FreeSocial.
6. Evan decides to scrap StatusNet for pump.io
7. Me and Matt suggest we just bang the whole thing together and call it GNU social because it's a good trademark thing.

So all three projects are from Evan's original project. Evan's doing other stuff now (like helping out with the W3C standardisation of a theoretical unifier that has no real implementations), Matt hangs out at Twitter and apparently goes to a gorilla university and I get spurs of free time and motivation that I use for making and breaking !GNUsocial stuff. :P