What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Looking for journalists, researchers, professionals, creators, etc.

Feel free to share anyone or any organization :)

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[-] nikt@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I gave up trying to make Mastodon work. Two minutes of scrolling and I always end up closing it with an overwhelming feeling of cringe.

Mind you I could never get in to Twitter either. Maybe it’s just the format? It reinforces ego/personal brand over the value of the actual content.

[-] Star@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago

You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don't like to see on your timeline. If you're scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.

[-] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

How are you supposed to find people to follow then?

[-] Star@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

Personally, I initially started with following accounts of some companies or softwares that I use or am passionate about like The Fedora Project, The Tor Project, Bitwarden, Blender, Proton, some game engines (and their creators) etc. You can usually find their mastodon handles on their website and/or somewhere on their twitter profiles.

After that I branched out from there gradually, following people as I found them in discussions, the explore page and through some 3rd party discovery tools as well like "Followgraph for Mastodon" which looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon and then the people they follow then it sorts them by the number of mutuals.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Figure out what sort of thing you'd like to see, check out the related hashtag feeds. You can follow tags as a good way to get started and follow individual people as and when they pop up with something cool.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 7 points 9 months ago

Probably the type of content, do you have a platform you prefer using as there are most likely Fediverse alternatives to them.

[-] nikt@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, I got a lot out of reddit, and I miss it sometimes. Lemmy doesn’t seem to have enough of the right people yet to generate enough high quality content to compare to reddit.

Y-combinator’s HN has been sort of filling that void for me though.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Yep, a large portion of the content is exactly that. Mastodon is successfully replicating the Twitter experience.
I'm not a huge fan of the format either.