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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 zigg »

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.

Have a look at https://instances.noct.zone/, a hand-curated list of a number of the more popular instances and their themes.

But really, you can join anywhere, don't think about it too hard. You can always follow anyone from anywhere. I have a very diverse follower/follow list, instance-wise.

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

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Post by ColinWright »

ohtwenty wrote: post #58
ColinWright wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Person Person X on instance I (X@I) follows Person Y on instance J (Y@J), and Person Y moves to instance K (Y@J->Y@K), there is currently no automatic way to have X@I start following Y@K.

Y@J can announce they're moving and say where they're going, but there's no automated process. Several have been proposed, all (so far) can be horrendously abused. So far, X@I has to see the notification and follow Y@K manually.

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

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Post by zigg »

ohtwenty wrote: post #60
kovek wrote: post #44

How to find people to follow? Is there a hashtag on mastodon to ask about finding certain people based on certain interests?

There's #ff or #followfriday for suggesting, but i've seen it used to ask for suggestions as well.

There's also Freya, the Follow Friday bot, who will randomly throw you suggestions and let yourself be added to the pool. https://botsin.space/@FollowFriday

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

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Post by retzkek »

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.

I too couldn't decide, so I started my own private instance recently (it was dead simple with the docker stack), and sometimes I feel a bit isolated and wonder if I should have joined an established instance instead. I suppose that's the burden one takes upon with a private instance: you have to actively go out and find people to follow and interact with. The advantage of course being that you're not bound by any sort of community rules or norms, and all the other advantages of hosting your own services. In any case my main goal was to get myself to write more, regardless of who's reading it, so to that end it's been successful.

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

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Post by ddevault »

People

https://mastodon.social/@eevee - good tech blogger

https://mastodon.art/@Curator - admin of an art-based instance who boosts lots of cool art

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy - artist behind https://peppercarrot.com

https://octodon.social/@emersion - friend of mine who works on cool projects with me

Orgs

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay

https://mastodon.art/@Krita

https://mastodon.technology/@kde

Bots

https://apoil.org/@NextLaunch

https://apoil.org/@nasa

https://apoil.org/@ESA

Me

https://cmpwn.com/@sir

How to follow -> click "remote follow" on any profile and fill in your account details.

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

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Post by mycoborea »

jordigh wrote: post #42
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.

I see more scientists over at scholar.social, have you joined and checked out their local timeline?

Never heard of it—thanks so much.

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

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Post by csixty4 »

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 multiple.

Part of the fun of Mastodon is opening up the Local feed and seeing what everyone on the instance is talking about even if you don't follow them.

Pick one to be your "primary" where you do your following but don't forget to check up on the exciting things going on with the other instances too.

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

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Post by dielan »

dielan wrote: post #17
myst wrote: post #14

What is Mastodon?

Its a recent new server software and client for the StatusNet "fediverse". StatusNet and the protocols it uses are very old, and a small community of users have been there for like a decade. Its a federated social network. It is like a cross between Twitter and email. Anyone can start a server and set their own community rules and guide lines. If you or someone on your server remotely follows someone they like on ano…

I see you making fun of my post Eugen. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99795655453246031

If I'm wrong about any of this tell me. There's nothing inherently wrong with a blocklist, I just don't like them and I'm just pointing out that it's a thing. I'm just posting my personal observations.

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

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Post by thomnottom »

retzkek wrote: post #65
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.

I too couldn't decide, so I started my own private instance recently (it was dead simple with the docker stack), and sometimes I feel a bit isolated and wonder if I should have joined an established instance instead. I suppose that's the burden one takes upon with a private instance: you have to actively go out and find people to follow and interact with. The advantage of course being that you're not bound by any sor…

You could always set up a second account to dig more into another instance. I'm currently on octodon.social (largely because mastodon.social was full when I first joined), but I've been thinking of creating a personal instance to play around with things that I don't necessarily want to clutter another local timeline with.
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