My personal heroes and projects I admire are 
@signalappSignal 
@Mer__edithMeredith Whittaker 
@torprojectThe Tor Project 
@gnome 
@thunderbirdThunderbird: Free Your Inbox 
@ryanleesipesRyan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter.
(5/13)
I have huge respect for everyone contributing to the Fediverse: the larger-than-life architects like 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@evanEvan Prodromou (without whom we would literally all not be here), implementers like 
@dansup bringing photo & video to it, new projects like 
@newsmastNewsmast Foundation 
@michaelMichael Foster 
@FreddieJFreddie Johnson 
@saskia 
@bonfire 
@ivan 
@mayel orgs like 
@Flipboard 
@mikeMike McCue 
@johnJohn O'Nolan 
@ghost @activitypub.blog 
@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle bringing the media over to the Fediverse, and 
@rileytestutRiley Testut 
@altstore for trying out completely new things.
(6/13)
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Pleroma once again has been memory-holed, but don't forget to thank the scrapers.
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