Looking for journalists, researchers, professionals, creators, etc.
Feel free to share anyone or any organization :)
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.
Mind you I could never get in to Twitter either. Maybe it’s just the format? It reinforces ego/personal brand over the value of the actual content.
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.
How are you supposed to find people to follow then?
@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
@TadeuszBonawentura Thanks for the mention. But I have to admit I went down the rabbit hole of kbin.social and don’t understand what it is at all
Hi! Appreciate your works! So, talking about this place. Welcome to another corner of fediverse. #Kbin and #Lemmy are federated forum platforms which work like Reddit but on principles similar to #Mastodon or #Pixelfed. That’s why we can talk together here by being on different platforms. Magic of federation!
@TadeuszBonawentura This whole inter-inter thing is developing faster than I can follow it. I quit X, but am still posting on tumblr, FB to a few old friends, insta, and of course masto, which I am liking.
They said, Tumblr is working to implement ActivityPub too, so sooner or later they’ll also take part on this party.
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.
Oh hey, I didn’t know Gaiman was on mastodon.
