I tried Googling her but it just results in a lot of people expressing sadness over her passing. I do not want to intrude on anyone's grief here, but I'd never heard of her before and I've not been able to find any solid info about her life or work.
In another place, someone said she did the best talk of FOSDEM 2023. I was at that event, but I'd never heard of her, nobody mentioned this talk, and he did not link it so I don't know for sure what talk it was.
I've googled that too -- this is way more work than I should have to do, frankly -- and I think it might be [this one](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/hachyderm/), but the blurb is fairly content-free and tells me nothing useful.
But the talk is also [mentioned here](https://medium.com/@dotdc/fosdem-2023-highlights-163cb96a190...) and that gives a little context.
Apparently she ran Hachyderm. I hadn't heard of that, either. Apparently it is a Mastodon instance -- I see little to distinguish these, TBH, and while I'm on Mastodon/Fediverse, I find it little to no use. But the second blogger there, David Calvert, said:
> mostly known for hosting the tech industry at hachyderm.io since Musk bought the bird site.
That's more info than anywhere else in this thread.
Hachyderm is apparently
> a safe space, LGBTQIA+ and BLM, primarily comprised of tech industry professionals world wide powered by Mastodon and ActivityPub.
I guess Mastodon is bigger than I thought since running an instance gives you so much recognition.
Perhaps I should seek openning an account there to get to know better.
That part threw me off too. It almost sounded like people were damning her with faint praise: talking about her Mastodon instance as one of her big accomplishments sounded to me about as insulting as saying that one's big achievement was running a really cool Minecraft server. But I guess the modern world is a weird place.
Her website doesn't have much: https://krisnova.net/
while also saying
> which I personally find very irritating indeed.
I don't think youre trying very hard with that "want", with the way you are speaking