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...
Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...")
@rob_carlson@mastodon.world
George Dyson (great for history of science posts)
@gdyson@sciencemastodon.com
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.
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)
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 query the Mastodon API.
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.
@breakingtaps@universeodon.com: electron microscopy images and hobbyist nano-scale maker and tinkerer. Has a youtube channel.
@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz: the science fiction author, mostly posts about math.
@danluu@mastodon.social: tech writer/blogger, his articles often make HN's top page.
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz: famous physicist, posts about math.
@TechConnectify@mas.to: whimsical and eclectic youtuber, thorough explainer of things like dishwashers, toasters, and LEDs.
@TomDuff@mastodon.social: inventor of Duff's device, posts about music and pen plots.
@robpike@hachyderm.io: inventor of Plan 9 and Go.
@aram@mastodon.sdf.org: don't follow this guy!
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.
Yep, which is exactly what makes it exciting an awesome too. Lots of people experimenting and no centralization of dominant ideas. it’d be cool if mastadon stays more like the early web
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.
https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy - Andy Hunt, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer among other endeavours. Also tends to boost interesting or funny stuff.
https://mastodon.social/@jonoxer - Jon is an awesome bloke in Melbourne, Australia who is really in to electronics and home automation.
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.
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).
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"
Clearly troll bait, but I just wanna say that no one is repeating twitter. This is decentralized. Even if corporations move in and create their own instances it will still remain decentralized. Even if it splinters into pockets of federation, it will still be more of a public domain than twitter ever was, being owned by one corporation.
People need to see this play out again in order to rule out the possibility that the problems Twitter had and caused were just due to that particular platform, in that particular scenario. If Mastodon (or any of the other alternatives) go down the same road, they'll begin to wonder if the cause may be something deeper. But, they won't arrive at that conclusion by abstraction, or else they would have already.
oldmapgallery|3 years ago
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.
beej71|3 years ago
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) #astrophotography #astronomy #rustlang #space #science #programming
And then mute people whose stuff you don't want to see.
As for people, I follow my friends and:
@openstreetmap@en.osm.town
@royalastrosoc@astrodon.social
@stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk
@georgetakei@universeodon.com
@archlinux@fedi.lynnesbian.space
@nasa@mstdn.social (I think this is unofficial)
@sdf@sdf.org
safety1st|3 years ago
asmor|3 years ago
jakelazaroff|3 years ago
Julia Evans https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk
Simon Willison https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
Steve Ruiz https://mas.to/@steveruizok
Molly White https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff
Mekka Okereke https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
josefresco|3 years ago
Mastodon View Profile: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-r...
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)
lapcat|3 years ago
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 query the Mastodon API.
weinzierl|3 years ago
4ad|3 years ago
@breakingtaps@universeodon.com: electron microscopy images and hobbyist nano-scale maker and tinkerer. Has a youtube channel.
@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz: the science fiction author, mostly posts about math.
@danluu@mastodon.social: tech writer/blogger, his articles often make HN's top page.
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz: famous physicist, posts about math.
@TechConnectify@mas.to: whimsical and eclectic youtuber, thorough explainer of things like dishwashers, toasters, and LEDs.
@TomDuff@mastodon.social: inventor of Duff's device, posts about music and pen plots.
@robpike@hachyderm.io: inventor of Plan 9 and Go.
@aram@mastodon.sdf.org: don't follow this guy!
Also mathstodon.xyz, math-oriented mastodon instance.
ninethirty|3 years ago
etrautmann|3 years ago
Daviey|3 years ago
proactivesvcs|3 years ago
anotherevan|3 years ago
https://mastodon.social/@jonoxer - Jon is an awesome bloke in Melbourne, Australia who is really in to electronics and home automation.
https://theblower.au/@cathywilcox - Australian political cartoonist. If you followed on Twitter, follow here instead.
https://blackrock.city/@spolsky - Joel Spolsky. If you followed on Twitter, follow here instead.
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix - Matrix, Element, etc.
https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal - Because he is a funny bugger.
ragebol|3 years ago
@fasterthanlime@octodon.social Hacker
@tlalexander@queer.party Working on open source farming robots
@fchollet@sigmoid.social Deep learning stuff, creator of Keras
TaylorAlexander|3 years ago
mcv|3 years ago
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).
Of course not everybody I'm following is on Mastodon. I'm not even on Mastodon. The Fediverse is a lot bigger than that.
OscarCunningham|3 years ago
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)
barathr|3 years ago
@librarianshipwreck@mastodon.social -- pithy critiques, cats
@nomdeb@mstdn.social -- history and other random things
@OkieSpaceQueen@scicomm.xyz -- science communications, conspiracy deconstruction
@tprophet@defcon.social -- writer at 2600
@kjhealy@mastodon.social -- pithy sociologist
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com -- urban planning
@enron@tilde.zone -- hacks and snark
@HelenBranswell@scicomm.xyz -- infectious disease reporting
@Jessicascott09@infosec.exchange -- misc infosec
@harshad@sharma.io -- farming in india
louismerlin|3 years ago
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs
https://infosec.exchange/@troyhunt
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog
https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech
https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker
https://merveilles.town/@neauoire
thebiglebrewski|3 years ago
TaylorAlexander|3 years ago
https://github.com/masrly/mastodon-link
ttrrooppeerr|3 years ago
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bhoops|3 years ago
@tendstofortytwo@tech.lgbt
@rashi@mas.to
@chenthil@mastodon.social
@sridala@mastodon.social
@anniezaidi@mastodon.social
@sharanyamanivannan@mastodon.social
@vaditi@india.goonj.xyz
@Calamur@mastodon.social
@nixxin@mstdn.social
@rahulbhatia@mastodon.social
@nilanjanaroy@mastodon.social
@hackiechan@mastodon.social
@nikita32@india.goonj.xyz
fattybob|3 years ago
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ThinkingGuy|3 years ago
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INTPenis|3 years ago
https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia
https://spacelase.rs/@dekaminski
https://infosec.exchange/@troyhunt
https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons # This is a group that boosts every post mentioning it. supposed to be history related but it can be abused of course.
https://heath.social/@carl
https://mstdn.social/@simonegiertz
https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
https://mastodon.social/@Popehat
https://fosstodon.org/@PINE64
https://hachyderm.io/@nova # Imho the best fediverse admin.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs
https://infosec.exchange/@cisacyber
https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal
https://wandering.shop/@cstross
https://mastodon.world/@JeriLRyan
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei
https://njalla.social/@njalla
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff
https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet
https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive
https://mastodonapp.uk/@aliceroberts
https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself
https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry
https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg
https://m.brokep.com/@peter
https://mstdn.social/@kathygriffin
https://mastodonapp.uk/@zsk
https://social.coop/@dajb
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EUSPA # Just a twitter relay so far
https://bsd.network/@solene
https://merveilles.town/@neauoire
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral
etherpaul|3 years ago
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weinzierl|3 years ago
No BS, down to earth infosec folks
Filippo Valsorda - https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo
Marcus Hutchins - https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech
Tavis Ormandy - https://social.sdf.org/@taviso
Royce Williams - https://mastodon.social/@tychotithonus
The Grugq - https://infosec.exchange/@thegrugq
Alex Bloor - https://bloor.tw/@bloor
Andrew Tierney - https://infosec.exchange/@cybergibbons
The usual Rust crowd
Mara Bos - https://hachyderm.io/@Mara
Aaron Turon - https://hachyderm.io/@aturon
Luca Palmieri - https://hachyderm.io/@algo_luca
Tim McNamara - https://mastodon.nz/@timClicks
Raph Levien - https://mastodon.online/@raph
Game Dev
Ólafur Waage - https://mastodon.social/@olafurw
Godot Engine - https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine
Celebrities (Stephen was one of the first people I followed on Twitter, so it is a tradition. The others are canaries.)
Stephen Fry - https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry
Kathy Griffin - https://mstdn.social/@kathygriffin
Greta Thunberg - https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg
Honorable mention
Dan Luu - https://mastodon.social/@danluu
goldforever|3 years ago
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SecurityMinded|3 years ago
kgwxd|3 years ago
Nevermind.
tgv|3 years ago
INTPenis|3 years ago
karaterobot|3 years ago
Another possibility is it'll work out great.