So far I really like the fediverse, but I am really missing some cross server follow suggestions. I was hoping someone here had some good suggestions on who to follow?
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...<p>Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...")
@rob_carlson@mastodon.world<p>George Dyson (great for history of science posts)
@gdyson@sciencemastodon.com<p>Rudy Rucker (mathematician, author, artist)
@rudytheelder@sfba.social<p>Alberto Cairo (data visualization - infographics)
@albertocairo@mastodon.social<p>James Gleick (author of "Chaos", "Genius", etc.)
@JamesGleick@zirk.us<p>Anne-Sophie Pereira De Sá (data visualization)
@wonderveilleuze@vis.social<p>Maggie Koerth (Senior science writer at @FiveThirtyEight )
@maggiek@sciencemastodon.com<p>Vicky Veritas (Geologist, GISMS Earth science, kind person that gets people connected)
@vickyveritas@c.im<p>this is barely scratching the surface.
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.<p>Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests...<p>#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)
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#rustlang
#space
#science
#programming<p>And then mute people whose stuff you don't want to see.<p>As for people, I follow my friends and:<p>@openstreetmap@en.osm.town<p>@royalastrosoc@astrodon.social<p>@stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk<p>@georgetakei@universeodon.com<p>@archlinux@fedi.lynnesbian.space<p>@nasa@mstdn.social (I think this is unofficial)<p>@sdf@sdf.org
Just wanted to share a tool (Chrome extension), that has made following people on Mastodon much easier.<p>Mastodon View Profile:
<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-redirect/limifnkopacddgpihodacjeckfkpbfoe" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-r...</a><p>Basically you click to view someone's profile, then click this extension's button in your toolbar and it will take you to YOUR instance, where you can follow that person with just one click (no copy+paste+search)
Please don't just post a bunch of links! Try to give a short introduction or explanation on why that person is interesting or otherwise worthy of following.<p>@breakingtaps@universeodon.com: electron microscopy images and hobbyist nano-scale maker and tinkerer. Has a youtube channel.<p>@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz: the science fiction author, mostly posts about math.<p>@danluu@mastodon.social: tech writer/blogger, his articles often make HN's top page.<p>@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz: famous physicist, posts about math.<p>@TechConnectify@mas.to: whimsical and eclectic youtuber, thorough explainer of things like dishwashers, toasters, and LEDs.<p>@TomDuff@mastodon.social: inventor of Duff's device, posts about music and pen plots.<p>@robpike@hachyderm.io: inventor of Plan 9 and Go.<p>@aram@mastodon.sdf.org: don't follow this guy!<p>Also mathstodon.xyz, math-oriented mastodon instance.
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.
The people who post to hashtags that I'm interested in, mostly. Try searching for your interests and you'll get cross-server results that should help you build up a network of people from other servers.
<a href="https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy</a> - Andy Hunt, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer among other endeavours. Also tends to boost interesting or funny stuff.<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jonoxer" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@jonoxer</a> - Jon is an awesome bloke in Melbourne, Australia who is really in to electronics and home automation.<p><a href="https://theblower.au/@cathywilcox" rel="nofollow">https://theblower.au/@cathywilcox</a> - Australian political cartoonist. If you followed on Twitter, follow here instead.<p><a href="https://blackrock.city/@spolsky" rel="nofollow">https://blackrock.city/@spolsky</a> - Joel Spolsky. If you followed on Twitter, follow here instead.<p><a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix</a> - Matrix, Element, etc.<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal</a> - Because he is a funny bugger.
@simonstalenhag@mastodon.art Great Sci-fi art<p>@fasterthanlime@octodon.social Hacker<p>@tlalexander@queer.party Working on open source farming robots<p>@fchollet@sigmoid.social Deep learning stuff, creator of Keras
Until recently, I most of my stream was politics, and I was missing the gamer crowd I used to hang with on Google+. Turns out they're all on dice.camp, and now that I found them, my stream is happy again.<p>So I'm mostly following a lot of RPG designers, but a few non-RPG-related names are: Cory Doctorow (super interesting of course), Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry (sometimes receives a lot of pointless responses, which makes it frustrating to engage) and George Takei (always receives a lot of pointless comments; I'd like to be able to hide other people's comments from his posts, because it's all noise).<p>Of course not everybody I'm following is on Mastodon. I'm not even on Mastodon. The Fediverse is a lot bigger than that.
Has anyone written a Chrome extension yet to take the username/server combinations of the top posted names and make them easy to click links? Like I can't click:
"Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...") @rob_carlson@mastodon.world"
The, one and only, Ron Gilbert: <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer</a>
There's an Observable notebook on this topic too who-to-follow-on-mastodon <a href="https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/who-to-follow-on-mastodon?collection=@observablehq/mastodon-visualizations" rel="nofollow">https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/who-to-follow-on-mastod...</a>
For folks from India, these are some random India specific accounts which toot frequently:<p>@tendstofortytwo@tech.lgbt<p>@rashi@mas.to<p>@chenthil@mastodon.social<p>@sridala@mastodon.social<p>@anniezaidi@mastodon.social<p>@sharanyamanivannan@mastodon.social<p>@vaditi@india.goonj.xyz<p>@Calamur@mastodon.social<p>@nixxin@mstdn.social<p>@rahulbhatia@mastodon.social<p>@nilanjanaroy@mastodon.social<p>@hackiechan@mastodon.social<p>@nikita32@india.goonj.xyz
<a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows" rel="nofollow">https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia</a><p><a href="https://spacelase.rs/@dekaminski" rel="nofollow">https://spacelase.rs/@dekaminski</a><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@troyhunt" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@troyhunt</a><p><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" rel="nofollow">https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons</a> # This is a group that boosts every post mentioning it. supposed to be history related but it can be abused of course.<p><a href="https://heath.social/@carl" rel="nofollow">https://heath.social/@carl</a><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/@simonegiertz" rel="nofollow">https://mstdn.social/@simonegiertz</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@elonjet" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@elonjet</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Popehat" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@Popehat</a><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@PINE64" rel="nofollow">https://fosstodon.org/@PINE64</a><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@nova" rel="nofollow">https://hachyderm.io/@nova</a> # Imho the best fediverse admin.<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs</a><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@cisacyber" rel="nofollow">https://infosec.exchange/@cisacyber</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal</a><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" rel="nofollow">https://wandering.shop/@cstross</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/@JeriLRyan" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.world/@JeriLRyan</a><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor" rel="nofollow">https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor</a><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" rel="nofollow">https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei</a><p><a href="https://njalla.social/@njalla" rel="nofollow">https://njalla.social/@njalla</a><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" rel="nofollow">https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff</a><p><a href="https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet" rel="nofollow">https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet</a><p><a href="https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen" rel="nofollow">https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive</a><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@aliceroberts" rel="nofollow">https://mastodonapp.uk/@aliceroberts</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself</a><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry" rel="nofollow">https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg</a><p><a href="https://m.brokep.com/@peter" rel="nofollow">https://m.brokep.com/@peter</a><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/@kathygriffin" rel="nofollow">https://mstdn.social/@kathygriffin</a><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@zsk" rel="nofollow">https://mastodonapp.uk/@zsk</a><p><a href="https://social.coop/@dajb" rel="nofollow">https://social.coop/@dajb</a><p><a href="https://social.network.europa.eu/@EUSPA" rel="nofollow">https://social.network.europa.eu/@EUSPA</a> # Just a twitter relay so far<p><a href="https://bsd.network/@solene" rel="nofollow">https://bsd.network/@solene</a><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/@neauoire" rel="nofollow">https://merveilles.town/@neauoire</a><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral</a>
Absolutely nobody. I refuse to play in some capricious individual's walled garden. After Elon's acquisition, twitter became good enough for me.