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.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com
@nasa@social.beachcom.org
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 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
I too am increasing engagement!
Here are few I picked up and kept:
Humour:
@JonBaker@mastodon.social
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social
Art / Comics:
@heyheymomo@socel.net
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
Mostly computer-centric:
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
@eaton@phire.place
@fraggle@octodon.social
@TodePond@universeodon.com
Official:
@wikipedia@wikis.world
Sweet that JonBaker guy is my type of humor. Great follow.
I’m a simple man.
@birdfeed@effinbirds.social
@WorfEmail@botsin.space
@RikerGoogling@botsin.space
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/
Mastodon isn’t really about the “celebrity” follow how twitter was, it’s more about finding your own tribe of weirdos. I second (third?) the idea of following hashtags, and then checking out those accounts that post to those tags.
The other thing I’d like to mention is the people I see happiest on Mastodon have all migrated servers at least once. Get an account on one of the big main servers, explore, then move to a small instance that suits your interests and has people you like. That makes for a much more useful and entertaining local feed. Don’t feel it needs to be a 100% match, it’s more about the people (it’s about the cones ).
