Never mind these no name nobodies in the other comments. I have decided to grace this thread. Please continue to anoint me with rare fragrances and oils; fan me with large palm tree leaves, etc.

Isn't Mastodon part of the "threadiverse"?

Also, I feel like there are definitely names I see a lot and recognize, but I don't think my memory for spelling would be able to write them down here... lol

write freely has their own hosted servers (https://read.write.as/), and ghost is a federated platform for monetized blogging (ghost.org).

for write freely, I found the fediverse observer page for write freely (https://writefreely.fediverse.observer/list). I once came across a huge write freely blog, but can't find it anymore.

on Keyboard Vagabond, I have a Topic set up with different blog communities that I found https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/topic/blogs.

it may also help to search mastodon for #blog and#blogging to find some people and then you can follow them there or on RSS from their main sites.

I don't know if that actually answers you question, but it's things I've done to find people.

Forget big accounts, I feel like we need a good name for Lemmy/mbin/piefed. I still remember someone here accuse me of shilling for Meta's Threads when I said threadiverse to refer to Lemmy/mbin/piefed.

Oh, hey, are you the same Combat Wombat from the mastodon watch parties?