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I'm trying to build a list of interesting people/subjects to follow on mastodon. Do you have any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://mastodon.social/@christianselig

Christian Selig; Developer of the late Reddit client Apollo & Pixel Pals.

[–] dee_dubs 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started with LoadingReadyRun (@[email protected]) because I've been a fan of their work for many years now. I've found a couple of authors I'm fond of: Charles Stross (@[email protected]) and Neil Gaiman (@[email protected]). George Takei is a good one to follow as well (@[email protected]).

[–] TheGiantKorean 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

George Takei is a good follow.

[–] Prking 2 points 1 year ago

He seems like a lovely man and is generally interesting. But he has an opinion on everything even when he doesn’t have any knowledge of the subject. So can be a difficult follow on occasion. If that happens, don’t unfollow but put him on mute for a few days.

[–] RebekahWSD 1 points 1 year ago

Love Loading Ready Run, they're great fun! Desert Bus is great but I almost always manage to miss most of it due to circumstances

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Molly White: @[email protected]

Her bio: “crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian”

She is follows the developments in the crypto/blockchain world and explains them to lay audiences (she thinks it’s horse crap and a scam). Right now, she writes near-daily updates on the Sam Bankman-Fried trial.

“web3 is going great” is her creation: @[email protected]

[–] infix 7 points 1 year ago

Good request. I would also like to know, especially for geopolitics / Ukraine / Middle East. A lot of the people I follow (followed) on xitter haven’t moved over yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Start by following https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows

They regularly post and link to different interesting accounts within various topics.

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

Cory Doctorow is a good follow: @[email protected]

[–] Speculater 2 points 1 year ago

https://mstdn.party/@HowNotToMakeAMovie

I'm not even into film making, but these guys are amazing interviewers. They made Tales From the Crypt and lots of other series and features and talk about the process, politics, and funding issues.

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

@CAVOK the general way i went was to follow #hashtags and pickup interesting people from them.

[–] atrielienz 2 points 1 year ago

Christopher Moore. I like his books.