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

[thegnuguy@fosstodon.org]

@taylorlorenz Christine Lemmer Webber obviously...and anybody else that works at Spritely institute.

[wandrecanada@mastodon.social]

@taylorlorenz If you can manage to speak to George Takei he was an account everyone followed during the early Mastadon era. It was a strange way people started populating their feeds.

It probably fragments pretty fast afterwards although the beige.party instance stands out as a high quality follow. Everyone on the instance is great to follow if only for the engagement and amusement they generate.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@ricci @taylorlorenz @laurenshof

Ah, of course!

Also: @jdp23 @deadsuperhero @damon.

Again, way too many to list.

[indigoviolet@tech.lgbt]

@taylorlorenz If your series is about Fedi in concept and not just Mastodon you should definitely seek out developers who’ve made software (like Misskey & forks).

[anopka@social.tchncs.de]

@taylorlorenz I'd suggest @FediTips and @FediFollows

As well as @dansup and @gargron of course.

[mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org]

@taylorlorenz clearly you should talk to anyone from nicecrewdigital

[dataangler@vis.social]

@taylorlorenz The scientist @davidho

[jmmaok@mastodon.online]

@taylorlorenz

Talk about great work by @iftas !

[jmmaok@mastodon.online]

@taylorlorenz

Ideally, talk to people who've had success moving a group or community from other social media to the Fediverse.

[mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world]

@cjd @taylorlorenz What do you mean GPL software/tools are neutral ? Obviously it can only benefit my political views :^)

[dataangler@vis.social]

@taylorlorenz the data scientist @nrennie who is a leader in #dataviz

[mriesp@akko.wtf]

@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social I’m not such a well traveled soul on the Fediverse, but I’m fairly sure you could connect with some of the friends of the guests on Fireside Fedi.

Also, my vote would go to @dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org, one of the more public facing devs of one of the smaller projects aiming to make hosting accounts individualistic and simple

[renata@cosocial.ca]

@taylorlorenz You should talk to @evan and @cwebber for sure - both involved in development and cool people

[cjd@pkteerium.xyz]

All free software is neutral, and if it was as simple as that, that would be one thing - but the Fedi has two very distinctive "halves" which ... the left half largely thinks the right half doesn't exist, and the right half finds the left half devoid of meaningful thought. But each one needs the other for the fedi to work the way it does...

[mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world]

@cjd @taylorlorenz Maybe there is not left or right.
Maybe there are just people thinking what the others are thinking.
Shame this happened tho as I've witnessed the exploitation of this logical fallacy by malicious people for divide and conquer reasons.
It would have happened anyway imo, but the consequences/extent would have been much lesser.
The only things who benefit from this are the Fangmans as usual.

[djsumdog@djsumdog.com]

She's on .social? .. ah yes, feds on the fediverse.

[ozoned@btfree.social]

@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social I second @_elena@mastodon.social

[cjd@pkteerium.xyz]

Don't assume those are explicitly political labels, I'm kind of thinking of them a little more like left and right brain... There is a political angle, and it's kind of left goes here, right goes there, but I don't think it quite captures the essence to refer to them as lefty-fedi and right-wing-fedi...

[alice@beige.party]

@stefan @taylorlorenz I think you meant to tag @alice@lgbtqia.space.

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@Alice@beige.party @taylorlorenz @alice@lgbtqia.space such a beautiful and rare name.