Hey all! I’m interested in creating an account on mastodon, and am looking to build up a list of people to follow. Let me know who your must follows are!
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I have no explicit suggestions but I will just repeat what was told to me: hashtags are your friend. Find people associated with those that interest you.
Actually I take that back, the one suggestion I do have is Low Quality Facts. Their posts make me snicker usually.
Get ready to block a lot of spam accounts if you follow hashtags though
I haven’t really had this problem and I follow a ton of hashtags. Also it’s good to report spammers so that their server can get rid of them.
Definitely Taylor Lorenz. She’s almost always on trending, but she’s a journalist always posting about twitter and musk’s controversies, very interesting content.
We Distribute is kind of like a publication about the fediverse. Great content.
Linus Torvalds. This one’s pretty obvious.
But I’m still looking too! If you’re into tech, you will almost definitely find something for you on mastodon, especially free software. Good luck!
Here are few I picked up and kept:
Humour:
@JonBaker@mastodon.social
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social
Art / Comics:
@heyheymomo@socel.net
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
Mostly computer-centric:
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
@eaton@phire.place
@fraggle@octodon.social
@TodePond@universeodon.com
Official:
@wikipedia@wikis.world
Sweet that JonBaker guy is my type of humor. Great follow.
Couple random cool stuffs:
- @FilmNoirPosters@zirk.us
- @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
- @GayOldTime@masto.ai
- @openculture@toot.community
- @robotwig@socel.net
- @LibrarianRA@worldkey.io
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@feditips@mstdn.social is a must follow for me.
Beyond that let finding people happen organically. Focus on finding hastags and groups to follow, then the interesting people will start to bubble up in your feed naturally. See also.
And if you’re on a niche/topical server don’t forget to get an eye on your local feed. It gets swamped on big instances but can be a great discovery tool on smaller ones.
I don’t have anything to share really but I’m here for the suggestions and making a comment to come back to later while increasing post engagement lol
I too am increasing engagement!
some high-volume automated aggregator news feeds:
- https://mastodon.social/@Mediagazer@mstdn.social (media)
- https://mastodon.social/@memeorandum@universeodon.com (politics)
- https://mastodon.social/@Techmeme@techhub.social (tech)
and a personal fav: https://mastodon.social/@archaeology@mstdn.social
Sweet, thanks for sharing!
I’ll follow once I get accepted on an instance!
since those are news feeds rather than people, i gotta shout out this Firefox add-on for finding people’s mastodon accounts after visiting their blog or other pages. it’s really cool: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/streetpass-for-mastodon/
edit-homepage with other platforms: https://streetpass.social/
Wait until Friday and check out the #FollowFriday hashtag… this guy is pretty lame though.
I’m a simple man.
@birdfeed@effinbirds.social
@WorfEmail@botsin.space
@RikerGoogling@botsin.space
This fella called DJDarren. He’s brilliant. https://mendeddrum.org/@DJDarren
I heartily recommend Fox News*, but otherwise I’d suggest looking up hashtags of things you’re into and following people who like what you like. And follow other people on your own server too.
It’s kinda tricky, because most of the people I follow might not be interesting to others, but they’re mostly good for chatting with.
*please click the link before attacking me…
I don’t complicate my life with lists 1 Someone follow me 2 Looking in the profile which themes he has 3 If it interests me, I follow back, if not, well, not.
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social is the author of the SMBC webcomic and he posts funny stuff pretty frequently.
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org does art with open source tools, including the open source Pepper and Carrot comic.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to posts dumb memes constantly.
@Popehat@mastodon.social posts smartassed yet accurate commentary on current legal news.
Mastodon isn’t really about the “celebrity” follow how twitter was, it’s more about finding your own tribe of weirdos. I second (third?) the idea of following hashtags, and then checking out those accounts that post to those tags.
The other thing I’d like to mention is the people I see happiest on Mastodon have all migrated servers at least once. Get an account on one of the big main servers, explore, then move to a small instance that suits your interests and has people you like. That makes for a much more useful and entertaining local feed. Don’t feel it needs to be a 100% match, it’s more about the people (it’s about the cones ).
