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.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com
@nasa@social.beachcom.org
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!
@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.
Couple random cool stuffs:
Some great ones here I've just followed, thanks
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.
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!
@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.
I'm a simple man.
@birdfeed@effinbirds.social
@WorfEmail@botsin.space
@RikerGoogling@botsin.space
some high-volume automated aggregator news feeds:
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/
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.
Have you decided on an instance?
Nope, not yet. Might spin up my own. If not, something tech-centric.
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?
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.
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
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...
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