(5/5)

Take Mastodon itself. Thanks for what it is today is owed to a village within the fediverse dev landscape. Hundreds of people contributed code and design ideas to Mastodon over the years. In fact, many of its most essential features required campaigns to convince Gargron they were priorities for people using it.

We also owe some thanks to Iain Dodsworth, creator of TweetDeck (now X Pro). Which inspired Gargron to create a new client for the OStatus network, then dominated by GNU social.