I think the answer to your question has several layers. I’ll start with the most general layer and get more specific from there…
The ActivityPub protocol, which Lemmy and Mastodon (and other services) use to communicate, is published by W3C and was developed by a group of people. This page on W3C includes a list of authors. It looks like at least one author has a Mastodon account; I’m curious to see if mentioning them here will federate to Mastodon and get a response: @cwebber@octodon.social
The main developers of the Lemmy software are @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml.
Each Lemmy instance (there are >600 of them) was started by a different person. This is usually (but not always) the first admin listed in the sidebar on that instance’s homepage. Sometimes the founder is not the most active admin; in many cases they have recruited others to help in order to spread the work and reduce the chance that the instance dies when the founder has some unforeseen life event. Here are a few people who started some of the larger instances:
@dessalines@lemmy.ml (mentioned above)
@ruud@lemmy.world
@sunaurus@lemm.ee
@TheDude@sh.itjust.works
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
@smorks@lemmy.ca (took over that instance from a previous owner)The fediverse has existed for much longer than lemmy has. I can put you in touch with the designers of the activitypub protocol, which the fediverse uses. I’m not sure what you need though
I just need a couple names or a single name so I can do an AMA Request and get it posted to AMA. I think it would be a neat interview and if need be i will send them the questions before.
You think they’ll willingly contribute to the enrichment of Steve “Pigboy” Huffman? 🤣
sure why not they can show off promote and feel their userbase and hopefully it does not turn out like spez
It literally cannot, because nobody owns it. Which is why there’s some confusion in this thread.
You’ve basically entered a public beach asking for the manager. Everybody’s looking around a bit confused. That guy over there has been here all day, so maybe he would do? Or maybe that guy over there who has a beach blanket with a bunch of friends on it? That kid over there built a nice sandcastle, maybe he’s the one you’d like to talk to.
It’s not like the private beach over at Reddit. There’s not one clear person in charge, and not one person can shut it down or change the rules for everyone else.
We have some people occasionally trying to poison the water, but we’re getting better at expelling them before they manage to do too much damage.
I understand but be it one person or a group just wanted to give my thanks and praise them. But someone somewhere had to come up with the fedivere or lemmyworld. It did not automaticcaly pop up out of know where. And something tells me there is an itch that the creator can’t scratch until he or she knows how much their work affected peoples lives in a good way.
It really did not pop out of nowhere, this comment here outlines it pretty well. Basically, there are the ones who came up with the protocol, the ones who came up with Lemmy (I think this is what you want) and the ones who started lemmy.world
(and some of us don’t even use Lemmy - I’m on mbin and piefed)
You can find admins name at the bottom of the sidebar of Lemmyworld
I know that but looking for the OG of lemmyworld or the fediverse. Because it kind of seems like the creator was like bender by saying I don’t like the social media I see so I will go and create my own.
That’s a really strange “or.” .world has only existed for about a year, since the big reddit exodus, and it’s just an instance, running Lemmy software on a server. The Lemmy software was first released five years ago, but that wasn’t the beginning of the fediverse. Like all fediverse apps, Lemmy makes use of the Activity Pub protocol, which came out like a year earlier.
right. I’ve been running infosec.exchange for going on 8 years, and the fediverse was already around for a while before that. It seems unlikely that lemmy admins, in particular, would want to do an AMA on reddit for the very reason that causes them to run a lemmy instance in the first place. but, you never know, I guess
Yeah, seems like a bad idea all the way around. Not sure Reddit would want it either.
Lemmy is a collaborative work, but my understanding is lemmy.ml was the first Lemmy but not the first fediverse tool. If someone more knowledgeable can comment please do.
However, I’d suggest starting with this person.
Thanks and hate to ask but can you message him because I do not need another account.?
You can’t just ask other people to do your work for you.
No shit that is why I hated to ask.
You asked anyway.
I’m not setup either for that. Sorry, I wish you the best.
The kind people of lemmy.ml might be able to help you
It’s okay, it’s free, open source and decentralised like Lemmy (which is probably a big part of what you and many others are grateful for!)
I think this site gives you a good starting point: https://joinmastodon.org
also this https://lemmy.world/post/18317805
The creator of Lemmy World is @ruud@lemmy.world. In my opinion, he’s a super cool dude, but doesn’t take crap from anyone. He’s a master of boundaries.
just messaged him I asked him to do an AMA if he was not busy or something because I think alot of lemmys would get a kick out of it.
