Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

#1

Post by rocky1138 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 1:23 AM UTC

I'm looking to follow a few more people from my GNU Social instance. Who do you follow, and why?

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

#2

Post by rocky1138 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 5:10 AM UTC

That rocky1138 guy is a great person to follow https://kwat.chat/rocky1138 cough

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

#3

Post by cjslep » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 5:36 AM UTC

I typically follow people I've had a number of meaningful conversations with.

If looking for techies, they're scattered across several instances. The i.write.codethat.sucks instance I am on I think is on the smaller side.

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#4

Post by howenterprisey » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 5:40 AM UTC

Those famous outside of Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@brion (major MediaWiki contributor), https://mastodon.xyz/@johnonolan (Ghost.org founder), https://mstdn.io/@xahlee (of xahlee.info, which gets posted here a lot), and https://octodon.social/@pzmyers (PZ Myers, the blogger).

Organizations: https://mastodon.technology/@kde, https://mastodon.social/@Purism, https://status.fsf.org/fsf, and https://mastodon.technology/@conservancy

Those who make interesting posts: https://cybre.space/@theZacAttacks, https://mastodon.social/@natecull, and https://dev.glitch.social/@MightyPork.

I'm https://mastodon.technology/@danielhglus, by the way.

And browsing the local timeline of https://mastodon.technology with the unmung tool (direct link: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mastodon.technology&view...) might turn up some interesting people to follow as well.

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

#5

Post by Uhhrrr » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 5:55 AM UTC

Just Mastodon, or anything in the fediverse?

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#6

Post by BadassFractal » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 6:19 AM UTC

I really want to get into Mastodon, but I cannot decide which one I would want to join. Is there one that's say best for.. gaming? Or one best for the arts? I tried to use their search but it's hard to tell which one I'd actually want to be part of.

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#7

Post by singingwolfboy » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 6:26 AM UTC

Janelle Shane: https://wandering.shop/@janellecshane

She runs the http://aiweirdness.com blog, which is delightful

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

#8

Post by sedachv » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 6:28 AM UTC

https://bsd.network/@ed1conf for useful tips about the standard Unix editor

Pretty much every other account on https://bsd.network/

https://mastodon.social/@qrs for retrocomputing and CG pictures

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

#9

Post by howenterprisey » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 6:43 AM UTC

BadassFractal wrote: post #6

I really want to get into Mastodon, but I cannot decide which one I would want to join. Is there one that's say best for.. gaming? Or one best for the arts? I tried to use their search but it's hard to tell which one I'd actually want to be part of.

For the arts, definitely mastodon.art. For gaming, I couldn't find any good (uptime-wise, and English) instances for just gaming, but https://mastodon.gamedev.place (gamedev) or https://boardgames.social (for the other kind of gaming) came up while I was looking. I used the list at https://instances.social.