The best Open Source humans on Mastodon.
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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. Boardmember of F-Droid. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉
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 now running free design services for #FOSS projects. want to become a sponsor? https://planetpeanut.studio/sponsors 🌱
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
#NoAI in my work.
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
Frank Karlitschek
@[email protected]Founder and CEO of Nextcloud, Co-founder and Vice Chair Eurostack, Board Member MariaDB Foundation, Founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, Photographer
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@[email protected]Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.
(he/him)
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profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit.
banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava
#foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22
(public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable)
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Lorenzo Ancora
@[email protected]
Open Source Advocate | Software Developer | Webmaster 🇪🇺🇮🇹
Friendly and enterprising geek committed to promoting user freedom and computer literacy. As a lifelong scholar and social activist, I specialize in Free/Libre and Open Source software development. A rational free thinker, I believe in personal growth through the power of knowledge and community.
Golden rule: respect → more respect.
#italian #foss #floss #opensource #linux #developer #fedi22 #programming #webmaster #sysadmin
Larvitz
@[email protected]
IT Consultant from Germany, Linux enthusiast, BSD fanboy and firmly convinced that Ancient Domains of Mystery is the greatest video game of all time (and always will be).
You'll find me here talking about Open Source, self-hosting, advanced networking (proud operator of AS201379), smart home shenanigans, and anything you can torment with a terminal. Cat pictures also welcome.
Left, antifascist, vegan. The trifecta your uncle warned you about.
Andrew Nesbitt
@[email protected]Package Management Nerd, working on mapping the world of open source software https://ecosyste.ms and blogging about package managers at https://nesbitt.io
Kunal Mehta
@[email protected]1L, Wikipedian, Debian Developer, MediaWiki core dev. Boba journalist, believer in free software and free knowledge. Professionally I work on SecureDrop.
Posts auto-delete after 1 year.
Jan Vlug
@[email protected]Free software (#FOSS) - vegan 🌱 - sustainability - #OneRights - finance - environment - transparency - Linux - freedom - fairness - politics - NL - 🐷 - 🤍❤️🤍 - 💙💛 - 🍉
blinry
@[email protected]Computer science, art, game design. Values autonomy, creativity and curiosity. Polyamorous. Introverted, organized. Humanist. Recurse Center alumn. Feelings: @nibryl
Curator of the https://glitchgallery.org, working on @teamtype.
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
Alex / catileptic
@[email protected][she/they] Move slow and fix things. CTO @ apti.ro. Senior dev @ darc.li. Open-Source Dev, Human Rights Advocacy. Queer, Relationship Anarchist 🏳️🌈
Antimundo
@[email protected]Game developer from Madrid, Spain. Interested in educational games, and libre software! 🌈✨
Working at @nokorpo
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.
☑️ Cath
@[email protected]Pirate 🏴☠️, Frisian in Rotterdam, FreeSoftware (free, as in freedom, not as in free beer) #Ubuntu, #PardonAssange 🍀 #music #politics
Hello!👋😊
Self-hosted Canon/Zwo photographer, mainly Icelandic landscape
Retired IT company director, 71 yo she/her in Scotland
INFJ-T
Owned by a cat
15.2kW solar, 19kWh battery, EV owner
Immunodeficient so 😷 + 9 x 💉
No AI or LLM
I already give to charity and I have nothing for sale
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I ❤️ ALT text, #OpenSource & 2FA
No bio ∨ posts = no follow
Boost ≠ endorse
I unfollow dormant accounts and use lots of filters
Conditional 2 wk auto-delete
Profile pic = Vegvísir
Intro pinned 👇
James Endres Howell
@[email protected]Associate Teaching Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, large university USA
Born at 326 ppm CO₂
#Microbiology #Biochemistry #MolecularBiology #CellBiology #MolecularMedicine #Evolution #Academia #HigherEd #Education #Science in #Humanities #Debian #GNU #Linux #GNULinux #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #GrapheneOS #OrgMode #EmacsLisp
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.
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.
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.