I would say Cory Doctorow because he's had a lot of practice explaining the Fediverse from high level, close up, and different angles.

@taylorlorenz @TechDesk definitely @FediTips

@taylorlorenz I think it's definitely important to include that 2008's StatusNet is what eventually became ActivityPub

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Things to talk about: The history of the fediverse before Mastodon.
People to talk to who haven't been mentioned ITT yet: @silverpill . He has written standards for self-custody of keys on fedi.

@taylorlorenz My name came up in a non-public subthread.

A lot of what I would have to say has been documented in the "people's history" type articles written about a decade back by Robek and Strypey, about the early, pre-Masto Fediverse from a user and social perspective, but I could be helpful with clarifications. (I'll try to locate those articles)

Like many others have pointed out, I would say Evan, CWebber and Gargron have key perspectives not to leave out from a history, protocol, development and hosting perspective, and for modern hosting perspectives and broadness of software and ways of running communities, I'd talk to Jerry and Darius.

I think all of these people have been at-mentioned elsewhere in the thread and I won't spam them further here.

Another interesting branch of the Fediverse historically is the one with Quitter, En Kompis Kompis, Freesocial and the Umeå Hackerspace, but I'm not sure where to find mmn, pettter and peer2hannes these days. If I @ them here, my server gives me the defunct Umeå Hackerspace server.

Oh, and I hope someone digs out that beautiful fedi software landscape poster from that workshop a few years ago.

@taylorlorenz Amazing! Thank you for doing this! 💚

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@cwebber ? She co-authored the protocol !

@taylorlorenz @ntnsndr if he hasn’t gotten on your list yet.

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perhaps one issue to bring up that most others won't is the perspective of the widely blocked servers.

they say it's their non left perspectives. admins who block them will say it's mostly harassment and that their users post hate and misinfo.

managing this is a struggle on a truly decentralized network. no algo means people can mostly not see what they don't want to. to grow, we should want conservatives here too, but we'll also lose users if there's lots of unwanted tagging.

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perhaps one issue to bring up that most others won't is the perspective of the widely blocked servers.

they say it's their non left perspectives. admins who block them will say it's mostly harassment and that their users post hate and misinfo.

managing this is a struggle on a truly decentralized network. no algo means people can mostly not see what they don't want to. to grow, we should want conservatives here too, but we'll also lose users if there's lots of unwanted tagging.

@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc / @posts and @thelinuxEXP

@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc / @posts and @thelinuxEXP

@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc and @thelinuxEXP

@taylorlorenz Be sure to include fediverse-aware YouTubers like @vkc and @thelinuxEXP