Who are your "must follows" on Mastodon?
Who are your "must follows" on Mastodon?
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!
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!
@[email protected] is a must follow for me.
Beyond that let finding people happen organically. Focus on finding hastags and groups to follow, then the interesting people will start to bubble up in your feed naturally. See also.
And if you're on a niche/topical server don't forget to get an eye on your local feed. It gets swamped on big instances but can be a great discovery tool on smaller ones.
Here are few I picked up and kept:
Humour:
Art / Comics:
Mostly computer-centric:
Official:
Sweet that JonBaker guy is my type of humor. Great follow.
Couple random cool stuffs:
- @[email protected] (Movie posters from noir films of the 1930s-1950s-ish.)
- @[email protected] (Internet Archive's official account. [I'm pretty sure.])
- @[email protected] (Random ads/media that celebrate queer-ness either obviously, subtly or unintentionally)
- @[email protected]ity (Random cool open source art resources and content)
- @[email protected] (Very cool action figure/miniature photography)
- @[email protected] (Retro ads/media)
Some great ones here I've just followed, thanks
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!
@[email protected] is the author of the SMBC webcomic and he posts funny stuff pretty frequently.
@[email protected] does art with open source tools, including the open source Pepper and Carrot comic.
@[email protected] posts dumb memes constantly.
@[email protected] posts smartassed yet accurate commentary on current legal news.
Wait until Friday and check out the #FollowFriday hashtag... this guy is pretty lame though.
some high-volume automated aggregator news feeds:
- https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] (media)
- https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] (politics)
- https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] (tech)
and a personal fav: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
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 ).
Have you decided on an instance?
Nope, not yet. Might spin up my own. If not, something tech-centric.
something tech-centric.
Might I suggest SDF? They are a long running tech community that started as public UNIX access.
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
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.