Jose Varela is a user on unshaped.space. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
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It'd be cool if each one of us told our story about #findingmastodon.
I first read about it in issue 30 of the Free Software Bulletin published by @fsf. Then, I rolled out an instance for @LPPFusion which is the company I work for. A little while later I rolled out my own personal instance and you've had to deal with me since.