Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 68 posts

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#31

Post by lapcat »

mg wrote: post #30
lapcat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From looking at the source on Github, it appears that this extension attempts to work with simple string rearrangement AFAICT. Unfortunately, this approach doesn't generalize, as I discovered myself while attempting to build a similar extension. It will work in many cases, but it will also fail in other cases. It's not universal. The only reliable method is to use the search field on your instance, or to directly que…

This simple code works for me: let your_instance="masto.ai"; document.location=( "https://" + your_instance + "/authorize_interaction?uri=" + encodeURIComponent(document.location) ) Before you turn it into a bookmarklet, set your_instance to the Mastodon instance you use. You can use my bookmarklet editor to turn it into a bookmarklet: https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor

This seems to work, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#32

Post by josefresco »

mg wrote: post #30
lapcat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From looking at the source on Github, it appears that this extension attempts to work with simple string rearrangement AFAICT. Unfortunately, this approach doesn't generalize, as I discovered myself while attempting to build a similar extension. It will work in many cases, but it will also fail in other cases. It's not universal. The only reliable method is to use the search field on your instance, or to directly que…

This simple code works for me: let your_instance="masto.ai"; document.location=( "https://" + your_instance + "/authorize_interaction?uri=" + encodeURIComponent(document.location) ) Before you turn it into a bookmarklet, set your_instance to the Mastodon instance you use. You can use my bookmarklet editor to turn it into a bookmarklet: https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor

Your code works, but there's a slight delay in comparison to the extension. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#33

Post by oldmapgallery »

Mastodon has been the social media experience we've been hoping to someday find. Much more content rich than twitter, and discussions that go somewhere interesting. There are too many bright people on Mastodon, and it's wonderful... just a few...

Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...") @rob_carlson@mastodon.world

George Dyson (great for history of science posts) @gdyson@sciencemastodon.com

Rudy Rucker (mathematician, author, artist) @rudytheelder@sfba.social

Alberto Cairo (data visualization - infographics) @albertocairo@mastodon.social

James Gleick (author of "Chaos", "Genius", etc.) @JamesGleick@zirk.us

Anne-Sophie Pereira De Sá (data visualization) @wonderveilleuze@vis.social

Maggie Koerth (Senior science writer at @FiveThirtyEight ) @maggiek@sciencemastodon.com

Vicky Veritas (Geologist, GISMS Earth science, kind person that gets people connected) @vickyveritas@c.im

this is barely scratching the surface.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#34

Post by safety1st »

beej71 wrote: post #29

I know this is asking about people, but following hashtags are where it's at. And it's a great way to find people, besides. Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests... #linux #unix #weather #bendoregon #orwx #railroad #history #caving #caves #seti #train #motorcycle #bicycle #openstreetmap #osm #amtrak #railfan #nasa #usgs #hacking #computerscience #math #programmerhumor (some real groaners)…

Tags are the way, the whole ethos of federation is about not being a sheep who needs to participate in some self-important global cult of personality to feel like they matter. Just follow your interests.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#35

Post by OscarCunningham »

Here are some of the more notable mathematicians from Mathstodon.

John Baez (https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez)

Vi Hart (https://mathstodon.xyz/@vihart@mastodon.social)

Greg Egan (https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF)

Katie Steckles (https://mathstodon.xyz/@stecks)

Marcus du Sautoy (https://mathstodon.xyz/@MarcusduSautoy)

Eugenia Cheng (https://mathstodon.xyz/@DrEugeniaCheng)

Terry Tao (https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao)

Tim Gowers (https://mathstodon.xyz/@wtgowers)

Matt Parker (https://mathstodon.xyz/@standupmaths)

(Me) (https://mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunningham)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#36

Post by TaylorAlexander »

ragebol wrote: post #3

@simonstalenhag@mastodon.art Great Sci-fi art @fasterthanlime@octodon.social Hacker @tlalexander@queer.party Working on open source farming robots @fchollet@sigmoid.social Deep learning stuff, creator of Keras

Hey that’s me! Thanks for the shout out.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#37

Post by sneak »

Daviey wrote: post #23
ninethirty wrote: post #13

Kind of reminds me of the early days of the web, you have a feeling there's good websites out there, but there's no established mechanism to find them.

Has this problem been fixed?

I started building a fediverse spider and search engine but the death threats and toxicity made me decide to work on other stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#39

Post by PaulBGD_ »

safety1st wrote: post #34
beej71 wrote: post #29

I know this is asking about people, but following hashtags are where it's at. And it's a great way to find people, besides. Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests... #linux #unix #weather #bendoregon #orwx #railroad #history #caving #caves #seti #train #motorcycle #bicycle #openstreetmap #osm #amtrak #railfan #nasa #usgs #hacking #computerscience #math #programmerhumor (some real groaners)…

Tags are the way, the whole ethos of federation is about not being a sheep who needs to participate in some self-important global cult of personality to feel like they matter. Just follow your interests.

I wish there was an easier way to keep on with tags on more instances though, following users I don't have to worry about that.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

#40

Post by Ensorceled »

safety1st wrote: post #34
beej71 wrote: post #29

I know this is asking about people, but following hashtags are where it's at. And it's a great way to find people, besides. Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests... #linux #unix #weather #bendoregon #orwx #railroad #history #caving #caves #seti #train #motorcycle #bicycle #openstreetmap #osm #amtrak #railfan #nasa #usgs #hacking #computerscience #math #programmerhumor (some real groaners)…

Tags are the way, the whole ethos of federation is about not being a sheep who needs to participate in some self-important global cult of personality to feel like they matter. Just follow your interests.

I ... follow writers and gamers I like on Twitter.
Post reply on HN