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

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

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Post by FourthEstate »

NoGravitas wrote: post #39
rayalez wrote: post #16

I have made HackerNewsBot [1] (it publishes stories with 100+ points), comedy bot [2] that reposts jokes and showerthoughts from reddit, writing prompts bot [3], and webcomics bot [4]. My favorite people to follow are: @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social (webcomics artist) @lumen@mastodon.social (writes jokes) @Gargron@mastodon.social (creator of mastodon) @cwebber@octodon.social (author of ActivityPub) And a few cool eng…

I follow several of your bots! One feature request: webcomics bot should provide links to the original when posting, so that people can find webcomics they want to follow regularly.

I can't amplify this enough, especially with creative products.

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

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Post by Mithaldu »

MayeulC wrote: post #21
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #20

I don't quite understand the relationship between the various instances on Mastodon. Once you join an instance are you stuck on that instance for life? What happens if you want to participate on another instance? Can I reply to comments on other instances?

Just like email addresses, you can have multiple ones, and speak with everyone else (AFAIK). What changes is that you also have a timeline (like a mailing list that goes in a folder) for your local instance, and one for the instances it federated with. As far as I know, a lot of people have different accounts for their different centers of interest.

That comparison doesn't map gracefully though, given that people don't "subscribe passively" to a single email account, and email users don't (outside of mailing lists) generally broadcast.

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

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Post by FourthEstate »

mycoborea wrote: post #41

Anxiously awaiting biologists, bioinformaticists, and other scientists to arrive to Mastodon en masse. So far scientists seem to be firmly entrenched in the blue bird site. Any recommendations along these lines would be sincerely appreciated! I am squatting at https://mastodon.social/@brendes , lurking silently until more scientists show up.

The only ones more entrenched than academics/scientists are the ones with the little blue checkmark, journalists.

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

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Post by FourthEstate »

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.

Join one, participate in any of them. That's the beauty of Mastodon.

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

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Post by ohtwenty »

ColinWright wrote: post #31
ohtwenty wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So yeah, you can talk with other instances. And if you want to migrate you should be able to download am your stuff and migrate follower lists etc

Currently you can download the list of people you follow, but have no way to migrate the people who follow you. If you're simply moving then you can leave a forwarding address, but that's currently the best you can do. People are actively working on it to ensure that people can move across instances smoothly, but it's not yet there.

oh? i thought you could migrate followers already. I haven't used it, tbh, quite happy with my instance.
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