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Calling all mastodon/fediverse social media accounts (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi all!

What fediverse social media accounts do you recommend for accurate and timely information about the war in Ukraine (i.e. mastodon, not lemmy)?

I've been very grateful to find this federated community since moving away from Reddit.

I've also deleted my 13-year-old Twitter account. Now, I'm looking for alternative, reliable sources for information about the war that are open and not dependent on Twitter/X.

Some examples I've found (note: I have not followed all of these accounts for a long time, so use your judgment when evaluating them wrt reliability/accuracy):

Do you have others to recommend? Thanks!

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[–] obinice 11 points 1 year ago

I would also greatly value this please! Thank you :-)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Here's another one I forgot to mention:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

@Ukraine_UA is run by @lusterko and is a pretty good source for current news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] is very good

I actually don't know how to link a Mastodon properly.

Same Account, but direct link: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's also the same Mastodon account I am following for news updates on the war in Ukraine on my Mastodon.world account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@[email protected]

Great summaries and live updates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I can add @[email protected] and @[email protected] (Note that the last one is fairly pro-russian, but good to corroborate reports of progress)

[–] Francisco 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I follow these:

Will follow more after this thread! :)

But, IMHO, the best way to find your own sources is to explore by hashtags , like:

[https://mastodon.social/tags/ukraine]

[–] dragontamer 2 points 1 year ago

https://lemmy.world/post/2664332

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI, Lemmy is just as much "fediverse" as Mastodon is. The term "fediverse" includes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Peertube, Pixelfed, and many more. So, your first paragraph kinda sounds like someone saying, "What Internet websites do you recommend (i.e. Wikipedia, not CNN)" Just thought you'd like to know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's fair, I think we're all trying to understand this new Fediverse thing. I understand that the underlying ActivityPub protocol is the same, but people tend to use these frontends quite differently. For example, I can't downvote a Lemmy post in Elk (the software I use to follow other people). I also anticipate Lemmy posts to be more "community-oriented" in the way information is surfaced (like Reddit), whereas Mastodon is more focused on following a person or organization (like Twitter). There's no wrong way to use the technology, but I do find the use cases helpful in organizing my expectations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

[email protected] is good too, shows map changes with arrows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also follow the #Ukraine tag on Masto

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I do this sometimes, but there are also some... not very reliable posts in there on occasion.