Who should I be following in the Fediverse?

Quinn Comendant

@tylerlwsmith @rysiek Follow hashtags! Then you’ll see the posts about topics you like, and will find new people who post on those topics. E.G., #buildInPublic, #webDev, #programming, #devTools, #UI, #homeLab

James Baillie

@tylerlwsmith Lots of people on the game dev instances. @MAMG and @Exilian might both be of interest on the game dev adjacent side?

Lefty

@tylerlwsmith
Me!
Pick me!

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

@tylerlwsmith @Verain

You may find my website entertaining

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

reyjkw

@tylerlwsmith I will just casually bookmark this thread so I can follow most people here later

Carl Poppa 🛸

@sysop408 @andycarolan @sarajw @chrispian @heyJTK @shaundai @shookcodes thanks for the shoutout Sheldon! i need to start being more active on here. Tyler is right, Twitter is getting sad.

@tylerlwsmith thanks for the follow! nice to meet you

Carl Poppa 🛸

@tylerlwsmith you'll love this guy @pauljan

Miss Gayle

@tylerlwsmith

Your best bet it to follow all those hashtags. That will populate your home feed with topics you're interested in.

Tyler Smith

@MissGayle oh shoot, I didn't realize following hash tags was a thing, but now I'm seeing it on my sidebar. Great tip!

Bee O'Problem :godot:

@tylerlwsmith @catsalad for cats and tech

manchicken

@tylerlwsmith Don't forget @pluralistic, @2600 , @benbrown , @lambdacalculus , @Wrewdison , @micahflee , and @socketwench . Oooh, @catsalad as well!

TOO MANY FRIENDS! Please feel free to peruse the list of folks I follow. There are a lot of fun people to follow.

Viss

@tylerlwsmith i spend an embarassing amount of time on home assistant, and mocking computer security!

Alison Wilder

@tylerlwsmith sounds like you have plenty of suggestions...given your list, you have definitely come to the right place!

Mx. Eddie R

@tylerlwsmith
A few good ones:
* @sundogplanets is an astronomer who talks about space junk (and space junk that has become Saskatchewan junk)
* @mos_8502 posts about electronics and stuff, and is making a neo-retro game console
* @futurebird posts about ants with such joy and enthusiasm that you find yourself excited about ants too
* @sinituulia posts about cats and clothes and sewing and silliness
* @eclectech makes cute and silly pictures
* @moonrabbit makes raku ceramic spirits and friends

Carl

@tylerlwsmith Welcome! I would suggest following some hashtags around your favorite languages, game tooling, and we dev tools and you'll pick up interesting folks to engage with and follow pretty quickly

Anne Delong

@tylerlwsmith

I like the articles in MakeUseOf

@muo_official

Mastodon Migration

@tylerlwsmith

Here is a resource. Not the easiest thing to use, but lots of accounts to follow including plenty of infosec folks.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/113516480482320836

Allpoints

@tylerlwsmith don't forget you can follow hashtags too

waysideollie

@tylerlwsmith you can follow hashtags and find people through their posts.

Julian Fietkau

@tylerlwsmith Hi Tyler! ️ I don't usually do this when someone asks who's worth following, but your list of topics makes me want to self-nominate. Lately my posts have been about half/half between fediverse development and human-computer interaction, where I do academic work. But I've previously posted about everything you've listed.