Looking for journalists, researchers, professionals, creators, etc.
Feel free to share anyone or any organization :)
If there’s interest, we could do more of these posts every few months
Good idea. Maybe we can also do active hashtags to follow.
I gave up trying to make Mastodon work. Two minutes of scrolling and I always end up closing it with an overwhelming feeling of cringe.
Mind you I could never get in to Twitter either. Maybe it’s just the format? It reinforces ego/personal brand over the value of the actual content.
You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don’t like to see on your timeline. If you’re scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.
How are you supposed to find people to follow then?
Personally, I initially started with following accounts of some companies or softwares that I use or am passionate about like The Fedora Project, The Tor Project, Bitwarden, Blender, Proton, some game engines (and their creators) etc. You can usually find their mastodon handles on their website and/or somewhere on their twitter profiles.
After that I branched out from there gradually, following people as I found them in discussions, the explore page and through some 3rd party discovery tools as well like “Followgraph for Mastodon” which looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon and then the people they follow then it sorts them by the number of mutuals.
Figure out what sort of thing you’d like to see, check out the related hashtag feeds. You can follow tags as a good way to get started and follow individual people as and when they pop up with something cool.
Yep, a large portion of the content is exactly that. Mastodon is successfully replicating the Twitter experience.
I’m not a huge fan of the format either.
@ZekuZelalem is investigating journalist with focus on countries of African Horn
@rachelstrohm Rachel Strohm interesting links on news of the African continent
@thecontinent Pan-African weekly newspaper
@maximedwards OSINT journalist
@MinCzifra political analyst with focus on post-soviet countries and regions of Russia
@anneapplebaum Anne Applebaum
@Bellingcat Bellingcat
@tonimichel_ Researcher of domestic politics of post-soviet countries
@Odrachewych Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, communism in global/transnational frameworks
@GreatDismal William Gibson
@annaleen Sci-fi author and journalist for New Scentist, The Atlantic etc
@nsousanis Nick Sousanis, an author of Unflattening, academic work in comic form
@stoicmike Artist and epigramist
@ComicBookProgressive Comics collectioner, which shares gems and wonders of collection he have
@fill ukrainian cartoon artist
@NancyComicsSDF Classic Nancy comics
@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world
@MeidasTouch@mstdn.social
@gupton68@mastodon.online
@thurrott@twit.social
@badastro@mastodon.social
@RikerGoogling@botsin.space
@RollingStone@mstdn.social
@peertube@framapiaf.org
@mwadmin@mastodon.world
@loganbonner@bird.makeup
@JasonBulmahn@dice.camp
@APoD@botsin.space
@Reuters@press.coop
@slashdot@mastodon.cloud
@arstechnica@mastodon.social
Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.
People have made some really helpful resources. Such as this list popular/famous accounts https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpUKkoT1MUn8_xM4usiERn-IdEuh0hXfBrwbbThwGiI/edit#gid=1111869705
Thank you!
Brian Krebs.
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Off The Hook (@OffTheHook@hackers.town) and Emmanual Goldstein (@goldstein@mstdn.social )
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