Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ColinWright » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 1:58 PM UTC

And now to partially answer the original question, culled from the 200 or so people I follow, so I will have missed some I should have left in, and some of these might be of less interest to the HN crowd:

https://octodon.social/@craigmaloney - Linux, programmer, stuff

https://mastodon.social/@natecull - computery and other stuff

https://mastodon.social/@rysiek - security

https://mastodon.social/@Ronkjeffries - Well, it's Ron Jeffries

https://mastodon.technology/@Ronkjeffries - and again

https://mastodon.social/@andrewt - Maths stuff and odd observations

https://mathstodon.xyz/@virtuosew - Linguistics, odd observations

And then there are the maths people:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@peterrowlett

https://mathstodon.xyz/@Pecnut

https://mathstodon.xyz/@christianp

https://mathstodon.xyz/@icecolbeveridge

https://mathstodon.xyz/@mscroggs

https://mathstodon.xyz/@aperiodical

https://mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun

https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk

https://mathstodon.xyz/@neilbickford

https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH

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

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Post by thomnottom » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

slipstream- wrote: post #53

here's some interesting people I follow: @crowd42@infosec.exchange @tinker@infosec.exchange @xeb@mastodon.social @lain@pleroma.soykaf.com I'm @slipstream@mastodon.social and @Rairii@cybre.space :)

I second @tinker@infosec.exchange. Followed on twitter and was glad when they showed up on Mastodon.

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

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Post by jelv » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:02 PM UTC

myst wrote: post #14

What is Mastodon?

"What is Mastodon?" by Mastodon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

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

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Post by sridca » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:15 PM UTC

kral wrote: post #34

If someone is interested, I'm the amin of an instance focused on functional programming: https://functional.cafe

Looking at the local timeline of functional.cafe there is hardly any tech related toots, much less functional programming. Is this expected of Mastodon networks? I noticed the same thing with bsd.network.

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

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Post by ekanes » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:18 PM UTC

Mastodon looks great, but one newbie Q holds me back - what if you join, participate, and after some years your the instance/community upon which you built goes under? Are you starting again from scratch somewhere else? Thanks for any help!

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

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Post by forty8bits » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:28 PM UTC

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?

Another user in this thread posted a comment[1] containing a link to http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mastodon.technology&view... which no doubt will come in very useful for browsing local timelines of other instances to find interesting users.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742180

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

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Post by sleazy_b » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC

ekanes wrote: post #75

Mastodon looks great, but one newbie Q holds me back - what if you join, participate, and after some years your the instance/community upon which you built goes under? Are you starting again from scratch somewhere else? Thanks for any help!

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

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Post by enkiv2 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:00 PM UTC

I wrote a bot that provides randomized follow suggestions (from its follower list) -- https://botsin.space/@FollowFriday

As for interesting people to follow (biased in favor of people who post interesting technical content) I recommend https://mastodon.social/@natecull, https://cybre.space/@a_breakin_glass, https://mastodon.social/@hisham_hm, https://mastodon.social/@tomharris, and https://hackers.town/@thegibson

I'm at https://a.weirder.earth/@enkiv2 at the moment.

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

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Post by franzpeterstein » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:05 PM UTC

https://instance.business/@SuricrasiaOnline

[...] Suricrasia Online is a Toronto-based ISP staffed entirely by anthropomorphic sharks in maid outfits. [...]

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

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Post by fenwick67 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:07 PM UTC

ekanes wrote: post #75

Mastodon looks great, but one newbie Q holds me back - what if you join, participate, and after some years your the instance/community upon which you built goes under? Are you starting again from scratch somewhere else? Thanks for any help!

There's support for exporting and importing the people you follow and block lists.

There's also a migration feature that lets you say "I'm at this new handle now" on an old profile. But I don't think it automatically brings your old followers with you.

Note that these are only viable if you know ahead of time that the instance is going away (this is happening right now with witches.town which is closing at the end of April).