Ryan P. Randall is a user on scholar.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
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If you’d like an FAQ-style Guide to #Mastodon, @noelle has made a nice one here & is looking for people to #translate it to languages other than English:
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/
