I'm working on a YouTube mini series explaining the Fediverse!!

[paelnever@masto.es]

@taylorlorenz
Please don't forget to mention that in many mastodon servers there is a rule that you cannot "annoy" people, yes it's as arbitrary as it sounds. As you could imagine the simple fact of disagreeing with someone in the comments (even if is made with absolute respect and rationality) will annoy that person so you can be banned for that. The consequence is that some mastodon branches aren't a place to discuss rationally, only a place where you show off your opinions and there is no debate admitted about it.

[simx72@tkz.one]

@taylorlorenz

There is a fedimagazine being written by fediversers in spanish

I am not part of it but I can say it is very representative of this side of the fediverse

https://archive.org/details/lafedirevista-1er-numero

[jeffcliff@whinge.town]

@taylorlorenz

@sun is who you want to talk to.

[smartmanapps@dotnet.social]

@taylorlorenz
@mapache who wrote Badgefed, a guide on how to federate Wordpress blogs, and several other projects

[aktbar@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz I’d recommend @CiaraNi

[chrisoliver@indieweb.social]

@_elena and @FediTips

[santiago@mastodon.uy]

@taylorlorenz talk to @cwebber and @evan

[danielbowmaniel@mastodon.sdf.org]

@taylorlorenz

Try @catsalad

[paul@oldfriends.live]

Thanks, Logan. #HashTagGames just went through a server crash and we had to use Fediverse magic for a week or so and the games went out without a hitch to the many players that come out at 9pm EST every night since fall 2022 to play the game live. I learned extra benefit to the Fediverse and how it operates in that ordeal...
@HashTagGames@hashtaggames.online

edit: the old account is @hashtaggames

@LoganFive @taylorlorenz

[mossyquartz@social.vivaldi.net]

@taylorlorenz Already you are getting many good responses to your question, and I notice many names whom I recognize as some of my favorites. Sometimes one of them posts something I simply take as fact, without my bothering to verify. One thing I have not verified, but have treated as if a fact, is from someone with a YouTube channel who posts content in the English language, but who speaks another language in his home country. He posted that the new AI thing with YouTube altered his carefully selected English subtitles without him knowing or being notified. This was an issue for him because he and some of his viewers use English as a common language, but the AI generated changes to his captions did not help or improve this communication choice. When he posted that, I deleted my YouTube account and now spend more time on PeerTube.

[mossyquartz@social.vivaldi.net]

@cjd Maybe I'm too neurodiverse or too old or maybe I lived too long in polyglot cities or maybe you're referencing the computer-literate as opposed to the water-coloring and sewing enthusiasts, but the people and people-equivalent who generate the posts/toots populating my feeds are more than one out of two halves. I do sometimes see something I don't want to see, so I guess there's the posts I would look at the and the posts I would choose to eliminate from my feed. Are those the two halves?

[adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz

For some more great and diverse perspectives maybe speak to @Yehuda who runs a Native owned and operated BIPOC friendly instance and advocates for more BIPOC visibility and fairer representation in the Fediverse, and @vantablack creator of @FediPact and Legendary Defender Of The Fediverse

[a_minion@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz

I"m fairly new here, I know I am missing much but don't know what I don't know. A Map a simple map would be helpful with a short comment on each branch & leaf.

Peace

[laescude@mastodon.cr]

@taylorlorenz Please represent people from the global south, @liaamancio comes to mind

[ericdere@mastodon.nl]

@taylorlorenz I would like to input a controversial one: @mosseri

He made federation with Threads possible. (You probably won’t get him)

[ericdere@mastodon.nl]

@taylorlorenz

Definitely @dansup @Gargron

[isaac@hachyderm.io]

@taylorlorenz you might be interested in @mike, head of Flipboard and host of the Dot Social podcast.

[jeremiah@shitposter.world]

@thekerker @taylorlorenz @Gargron note one "favorite" to this question after 5 hours. That clown is well known for building the Mastodon software, but he's hardly the wizard of fedi.

[michel404@mas.to]

@taylorlorenz how about Nicole, but you can call her the Fediverse chick?

[charityhl@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz The trending page usually have people different than the typical userbase I'd encounter on american platforms. It is decentralized, so sometimes I get to see dutch or german posters even if I don't know any of their language.

Mastodon fediverse is part of why I have a home here. I get to avoid meeting the same group of chronically online posters raking over 200k posts since 2010s and reading about whatever irks them.