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Gina
@[email protected]Dutch gov OSPO | Open Source | GovTech | Digital Sovereignty | IT nerd | 🇪🇺🇳🇱
Advocate for open, ethical alternatives to big tech. Posting on a personal title.
One of Fosstodon's admins. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉
servus.at
@[email protected]servus.at is a network initiative in Linz, Austria. We host open-source, cultural internet infrastructure and produce media and net art.
https://core.servus.at
Art Meets Radical Openness
http://radical-openness.org
follow servus status account
[email protected]
https://post.lurk.org/@ping_servus
Jan Vlug
@[email protected]Free software (#FOSS) - vegan 🌱 - sustainability - #OneRights - finance - environment - transparency - Linux - freedom - fairness - politics - NL - 🐷 - 🤍❤️🤍 - 💙💛 - 🍉
Richard Hughes
@[email protected]I write free software. Firmware troublemaker.
Ben Lockwood, PhD
@[email protected]Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founder/Editor of @briefecology | Featured in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Area, Literary Geographies, and elsewhere
Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #biodiversity #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball
Andy Piper
@[email protected]communities person 💗💜💙
technologist & #PenPlotter artist.
I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets
co-runner of #Maker meetup 🛠️ @hackwimbledon
one-third of a weekly #Podcast 🎧 @gamesatwork_biz
#3DPrinting #MicroPython #PlotterArt #LEGO #OpenSource #DoctorWho #fedi22
Pensador Louco
@[email protected]
Cara estranho, anarquista, entusiasta de FOSS, escritor e podcaster responsável por cometer o Teatro Escuro do Pensador Louco. Siga-me por tua livre e espontânea vontade.
Joe Brockmeier
@[email protected]Longtime open-source user, advocate, and contributor. I’ve been working with and writing about Linux and open source since 1999. Now writing for LWN.net (@lwn). Become a subscriber here if you're not already! https://lwn.net/subscribe/
I post about Linux, free and open-source software (FOSS), music, cats, politics, writing, and anything else that comes to mind. Hates gen-AI slop.
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain
Jaroslav "Řezza" Řezník
@[email protected]Open source guy, Fedora & Red Hatter (gov certs FIPS/CC etc.), OpenAlt and mobile gadgets, politics and Tesla/EV fan... That's all me!
Czech/English
Christine Hall
@[email protected]Writer about all things open source, as well as music and politics. Once upon a time host of The Sixties in 60 on TheBarrelofRock.com. I have a podcast coming up, so watch this space for the news!
Publisher, editor, & writer at FOSS Force, Alternative Approaches, and If This Be Treason.
Hylke Bons 🥜
@[email protected]product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.
🌱 laid off in 2026 and looking for $1/month sponsors to help #FOSS projects with design: https://github.com/sponsors/hbons 🌱
been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades.
enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.
🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy film photographer
🌌 #aurora chaser
Mina
@[email protected]Tooting in Deutsch, English, español
Originally from Berlin, now back after >20 years abroad (ARG, UK, CH).
I like and care about:
Science, Math, IT, FOSS, parenting, fun, politics, books, 🏳️⚧️ things, music, film, cooking & food, some naughty stuff & much more.
What I most enjoy, is interaction with friendly people.
No DM please, unless we already know each other, or you have something important to tell!
Koen de Jonge - SynQ
@[email protected]Hacker, IT Infrastructure, Open Storage, Open Source, ProcoliX Hosting, Open Internet Discourse Foundation, HackerHosting, Protagio, Fediversity #Privacy #Sustainability #Transparency Husband of Tessa, father of Emma, Huub and Lieke. Plays Viola, rides horses. Always busy, seldomly quiet.
informapirata ⁂
@[email protected]
Politica Pirata:
informazione su #whistleblowing #dirittidigitali #sovranitàdigitale #copyright #privacy #cyberwarfare #pirati #Europa #opensource #opendata #PrivacyPride
https://t.me/ppInforma
⚠️ Sono uno dei moderatori di mastodon.uno, ma le opinioni che caratterizzano questo account sono espresse sempre a titolo personale ⚠️
Philip Steller
@[email protected]Living with Love for: DIY, Electronics, Music, Arts, Nature, everything Open Source, Privacy & Digital Rights, Bicycles, Food(sharing), Linux/Unix, Selfhosting...
This is my new account, moved over from @phil
Kai Bojens 🇪🇺🖖
@[email protected]Norddeutsch | Politikwissenschaft | Linux Sysadmin | Trekkie | Europäer | KDE | FOSS | OpenSUSE | Digitale Bürgerrechte | Japanisch Lernender | Kein Amt, kein Mandat, kandidiert für nichts | Stoiker | #Freiheitsgrün
Robert W. Gehl
@[email protected]Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press late 2025.
Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping run AoIR.social
he/him
Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.
Jake Howard
@[email protected]Part Developer, Part SysAdmin, Part InfoSec. Avid self-hoster.
- All things systems @ Torchbox.
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@django Security Team & Software Foundation member.
- Core & Security Team @wagtail
- 🍊 Also known as RealOrangeOne in some places
Opinions are a belief or construct held with confidence.
Paolo Melchiorre
@[email protected]🐍 #Python developer · 🦄 #Django contributor · 🥑 #FreeSoftware advocate · 🗣 #Conference speaker · 🐧 #Linux user · 👨🔬 #ComputerScience engineer
🦄 #DSF board member
🐍 #PSF fellow
🧡 #DjangoGirls coach
🚀 #DjangonautSpace navigator
🍝 #PyConItalia organizer
🇮🇹 #PythonItalia member
🐬 #PythonPescara founder
🏖️ #DjangoOnTheMed organizer
🎓 #UniBo alumnus
⚖️ License #CreativeCommons BY‐SA 4.0
🖼️ Header: Me on stage at #DjangoCon US 2023
👤 Avatar: Me wearing the #DjangoCon US 2022 lanyard
paul
@[email protected]back up at @amiserabilist
Avatar: penny farthing i am not a number
Header: plague island
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no one who wanted to read one.
gen x
amab/cis/het standing with 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
he/him
probably on the spectrum.
if you think i am being rude to you, i am not.
it is a joke that i have not properly conveyed.
sleet01
@[email protected]Generic PNW dev.
I __main__ Python.
駄洒落は大🎿だ。
LGBTQAI2S+ ally.
Too many hobbies.
FOSS enthusiast.
Seeking a more just society.
Pronouns: he/him.
Header is a size-accurate group shot of many classic giant robots from anime history.
Profile pic is me in an Otakon 2006 tee shirt from *cough* a few years back.
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#transformers
#earthdefenseforce
#revolutionarygirlutena
#progressive
#battletech