What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If there’s interest, I might do more of these posts every few months

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, please! 🤩

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• emptyother@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• nikt@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Star@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How are you supposed to find people to follow then?

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  • SamXavia@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • nikt@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• TadeuszBonawentura@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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• Drunemeton@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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• Star@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• damon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People have made some really helpful resources. Such as which list popular/famous accounts docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…/edit#gid=1111869…

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you!

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Brian Krebs.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

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• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your mom.

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  • macattack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sick burn bro

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Off The Hook (@OffTheHook@hackers.town) and Emmanual Goldstein (@goldstein@mstdn.social )

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