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!
- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
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…
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
Have you decided on an instance?
Nope, not yet. Might spin up my own. If not, something tech-centric.
- maegul ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) English0•11 months ago
I’d suggest hachyderm.io then.
Tech centric, run by a co-op that’s also trying to be a general tech co-op of some sort currently starting some sort of software project. Run very professionally by mastodon standards. They use GitHub issues for lodging problems, issue monthly reports about things, have documentation etc, and, culturally speaking, try pretty well to be the inclusive kind of tech-centric (IE, queer, trans and BIPOC people are at the top level of the co-op). I’ve been on there for a while and never had a performance issue of any sort.
https://hachyderm.io/getting-started
https://community.hachyderm.io/docs/
The parent co-op organisation: https://nivenly.org/ They also have a discord which isn’t a bad tech place to hang out if you’re interested
- mnrockclimber ( @mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org ) English0•11 months ago
something tech-centric.
Might I suggest SDF? They are a long running tech community that started as public UNIX access.
Seems to be running pretty slow right now, is it just a one-off or is this their normal response time?
- mnrockclimber ( @mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•11 months ago
I’m using the ivory app on iOS to interact with Mastodon so I can’t say for sure. But performance has been great for me. I even pay for extra SDF services.
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
Wait until Friday and check out the #FollowFriday hashtag… this guy is pretty lame though.
- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
He just followed me, so at the very least I know he’s a masochist.
- StimulatedYorkie ( @StimulatedYorkie@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
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!
- ThePJN ( @ThePJN@sopuli.xyz ) English1•11 months ago
Couple random cool stuffs:
- @FilmNoirPosters@zirk.us (Movie posters from noir films of the 1930s-1950s-ish.)
- @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org (Internet Archive’s official account. [I’m pretty sure.])
- @GayOldTime@masto.ai (Random ads/media that celebrate queer-ness either obviously, subtly or unintentionally)
- @openculture@toot.community (Random cool open source art resources and content)
- @robotwig@socel.net (Very cool action figure/miniature photography)
- @LibrarianRA@worldkey.io (Retro ads/media)