Hey all! I’m interested in creating an account on mastodon, and am looking to build up a list of people to follow. Let me know who your must follows are!
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I have no explicit suggestions but I will just repeat what was told to me: hashtags are your friend. Find people associated with those that interest you.
Actually I take that back, the one suggestion I do have is Low Quality Facts. Their posts make me snicker usually.
Definitely Taylor Lorenz. She’s almost always on trending, but she’s a journalist always posting about twitter and musk’s controversies, very interesting content.
We Distribute is kind of like a publication about the fediverse. Great content.
Linus Torvalds. This one’s pretty obvious.
But I’m still looking too! If you’re into tech, you will almost definitely find something for you on mastodon, especially free software. Good luck!
I’m a simple man.
@birdfeed@effinbirds.social
@WorfEmail@botsin.space
@RikerGoogling@botsin.space
I don’t have anything to share really but I’m here for the suggestions and making a comment to come back to later while increasing post engagement lol
some high-volume automated aggregator news feeds:
- https://mastodon.social/@Mediagazer@mstdn.social (media)
- https://mastodon.social/@memeorandum@universeodon.com (politics)
- https://mastodon.social/@Techmeme@techhub.social (tech)
and a personal fav: https://mastodon.social/@archaeology@mstdn.social
Sweet, thanks for sharing!
I’ll follow once I get accepted on an instance!
since those are news feeds rather than people, i gotta shout out this Firefox add-on for finding people’s mastodon accounts after visiting their blog or other pages. it’s really cool: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/streetpass-for-mastodon/
edit-homepage with other platforms: https://streetpass.social/
This fella called DJDarren. He’s brilliant. https://mendeddrum.org/@DJDarren
I heartily recommend Fox News*, but otherwise I’d suggest looking up hashtags of things you’re into and following people who like what you like. And follow other people on your own server too.
It’s kinda tricky, because most of the people I follow might not be interesting to others, but they’re mostly good for chatting with.
*please click the link before attacking me…
Have you decided on an instance?
Nope, not yet. Might spin up my own. If not, something tech-centric.
I’d suggest hachyderm.io then.
Tech centric, run by a co-op that’s also trying to be a general tech co-op of some sort currently starting some sort of software project. Run very professionally by mastodon standards. They use GitHub issues for lodging problems, issue monthly reports about things, have documentation etc, and, culturally speaking, try pretty well to be the inclusive kind of tech-centric (IE, queer, trans and BIPOC people are at the top level of the co-op). I’ve been on there for a while and never had a performance issue of any sort.
https://hachyderm.io/getting-started
https://community.hachyderm.io/docs/
The parent co-op organisation: https://nivenly.org/ They also have a discord which isn’t a bad tech place to hang out if you’re interested
Wait until Friday and check out the #FollowFriday hashtag… this guy is pretty lame though.
I don’t complicate my life with lists 1 Someone follow me 2 Looking in the profile which themes he has 3 If it interests me, I follow back, if not, well, not.
