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

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

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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

@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.

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Try @catsalad

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@dansup

@taylorlorenz talk to @cwebber and @evan

@taylorlorenz I’d recommend @CiaraNi

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I read through the lists people gave you already, and my one addition would be people who create games and events for us to enjoy, like:

@hashtaggames with host @paul

@monsterdon and #Monsterdon which I think is arranged by @Taweret

@JoParkerBear and #JoWordle.

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

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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

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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.

@taylorlorenz I'd nominate @Edent, both very social and very much versed in the tech itself.

@taylorlorenz @FediTips provides detailed beginner friendly information through their sites and handles

@taylorlorenz The different programs and their forks! (Like #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, and the history of their forks)

The #Reddit-style forum #Fediverse software like #Lemmy and #Mbin

#Fediblock

Attempts from big tech to adopt the #Fediverse (like #Threads)