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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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If there's interest, we could do more of these posts every few months

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

Yes, please! 🤩

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago

Good idea. Maybe we can also do active hashtags to follow.

[-] emptyother@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago

The most active famous person I've found on Mastodon is @georgetakei@universeodon.com .

Other famous people:

@JenMsft@mastodon.social - Popular Microsoft engineer. Active.
@neilhimself@mastodon.social - Neil Gaiman. Not very active, mostly do reposts. He said he'd answer on Mastodon though, if he can.
@shanselman@hachyderm.io - Scott Hanselman. Popular Microsoft dev. Active.
@adamconover@mastodon.social - Adam Conover. Occasionally posts a youtube link to his show. Not much more interaction.
@JeriLRyan@mastodon.world - Jeri Ryan, another Star Trek actor. Not active for 2 months now.
@gretathunberg@mastodon.nu Greta Thunberg. Not posted anything for a few months now.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Oh hey, I didn't know Gaiman was on mastodon.

[-] JenMsft@mastodon.social 2 points 9 months ago

@emptyother @otter @georgetakei @neilhimself @shanselman @adamconover @JeriLRyan @gretathunberg I don't really think of myself as famous haha

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

A famous person has arrived!

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@loadingartist@mastodon.world and @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social - two webcomic artists with simplistic art styles I really like. Loading Artist has a Lemmy community, even: @loadingartist@lemmy.world.
@Christianselig@mastodon.social - developer of Apollo (the iOS app that got kill) and Pixel Pals.
@vwestlife@mastodon.social and @TechConnectify@mas.to - YouTubers focusing on old/retro tech who have fedi profiles. Word of warning, though: Tech Connections might chew you out if you're being an obnoxious FOSS zealot.
@metabrainz@mastodon.social - The MetaBrainz foundation, who you probably know for MusicBrainz.
@The_DoctorO@mas.to - Former WinAmp/Shoutcast dev, focusing on WACUP, which is essentially a continuation of pre-NFT WinAmp.
social.bbc - the BBC's official Mastodon/fediverse instance. They've given the fediverse a 6-month trial since around July I believe, and have already given up on Threads apparently.

[-] 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.

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 9 months ago

I'm feeling that way with Lemmy tbh. Maybe I'm just not the Reddit type.

[-] TadeuszBonawentura@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

@ZekuZelalem is investigating journalist with focus on countries of African Horn

@rachelstrohm Rachel Strohm interesting links on news of the African continent

@thecontinent Pan-African weekly newspaper

@maximedwards OSINT journalist

@MinCzifra political analyst with focus on post-soviet countries and regions of Russia

@anneapplebaum Anne Applebaum

@Bellingcat Bellingcat

@tonimichel_ Researcher of domestic politics of post-soviet countries

@Odrachewych Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, communism in global/transnational frameworks

@GreatDismal William Gibson

@annaleen Sci-fi author and journalist for New Scentist, The Atlantic etc

@nsousanis Nick Sousanis, an author of Unflattening, academic work in comic form

@stoicmike Artist and epigramist

@ComicBookProgressive Comics collectioner, which shares gems and wonders of collection he have

@fill ukrainian cartoon artist

@NancyComicsSDF Classic Nancy comics

[-] stoicmike@zirk.us 1 points 9 months ago

@TadeuszBonawentura Thanks for the mention. But I have to admit I went down the rabbit hole of kbin.social and don't understand what it is at all

[-] TadeuszBonawentura@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

Hi! Appreciate your works! So, talking about this place. Welcome to another corner of fediverse. #Kbin and #Lemmy are federated forum platforms which work like Reddit but on principles similar to #Mastodon or #Pixelfed. That's why we can talk together here by being on different platforms. Magic of federation!

[-] stoicmike@zirk.us 0 points 9 months ago

@TadeuszBonawentura This whole inter-inter thing is developing faster than I can follow it. I quit X, but am still posting on tumblr, FB to a few old friends, insta, and of course masto, which I am liking.

[-] TadeuszBonawentura@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

They said, Tumblr is working to implement ActivityPub too, so sooner or later they'll also take part on this party.

[-] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world

@MeidasTouch@mstdn.social

@gupton68@mastodon.online

@thurrott@twit.social

@badastro@mastodon.social

@RikerGoogling@botsin.space

@RollingStone@mstdn.social

@peertube@framapiaf.org

@mwadmin@mastodon.world

@loganbonner@bird.makeup

@JasonBulmahn@dice.camp

@APoD@botsin.space

@Reuters@press.coop

@slashdot@mastodon.cloud

@arstechnica@mastodon.social

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

Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.