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If you're wondering how to follow him: https://social.kernel.org/torvalds
@torvalds@social.kernel.org
this implies torvalds is a community on social.kernel.org.
person mentions have @ not ! (also you can't follow people on lemmy yet)
I was just testing if it will work, Would be cool if I can follow him like a community and interact with his posts
Is it mastodon or just something custom?
Akkoma it seems
GNU Social, it predates the Fediverse itself
if you count all the projects that migrated protocols over the years then there's a fair bit of "content" in the fediverse that predates not only activitypub (what people refer to as "fediverse" today) but also some proprietary platforms like google+ (and in this specific case have outlived them)