The best Open Source humans on Mastodon.
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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
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)
🇪🇺 🇵🇱 · 🇧🇦 🇮🇸 · 🇺🇦
William Shotts
@[email protected]Retired computer professional who wrote a book, takes pictures, studied #industrialdesign, thinks about the universe, and advocates for #Linux and #FOSS.
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
Ben Lockwood, PhD
@[email protected]Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Writer | Photographer | Editor of Brief Ecology 🌲 and Rotting Leaf Mag 🍂 | Centre County DSA Chair 🌹| Author of Ecologizing Society: Theory
Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball #fedi22
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
/mastodon/gutocarvalho
@[email protected]
SysAdmin &&
(Cloud | Platform | GitOps) Engineer 
DevOps Enthusiast
> DevOps is a Culture

Father of Bia & Artur
Guardian of && \
Pacoca (Male Golden Retriever) && \
Tweet (Female Tricolor Cat)
Living in Dourados/MS/Brazil
Made in Campo Grande/MS/Brazil
Raised in the South #Pantanal Wetland
Version 44.0
Initital build 1981.05.12.0002
#Neurodiversity #ADHD #MDD 
#TDA #TDR
#Tode #OkinawaTe
#KarateDo #ShitoRyuKai
#BlackBelt 🥋
#DevOps #GitOps #CloudNative
#Agile #SRE #IaC #Infrastructure
#OpenSource #OpenKnowledge
#Kubernetes #Rancher #Puppet
#Firestarter #Innovation
#ProScience
Surfing on the 🌎 since 1995.
/me is the founder of Bolha.io
Collective.
The answer is 42
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Toots in 🇧🇷 and 🇺🇸
Posts will expire in 1 week.
GutoCarvalho.Net & GCN.sh
🙂🙂🙂🧊🧊🧊❤️❤️❤️
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
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.
Jan Vlug
@[email protected]Free software (#FOSS) - vegan 🌱 - sustainability - #OneRights - finance - environment - transparency - Linux - freedom - fairness - politics - NL - 🐷 - 🤍❤️🤍 - 💙💛 - 🍉
paul
@[email protected]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.
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
@[email protected]CTO @dude (a WordPress agency), admin of several servers like this one, programmer, *nix user, and advocate for an open and ethical Internet. Creator of Mastodon Bird UI. I work with servers, websites, and open source for a living. I'm safe. 🌈
popey
@[email protected]Developer relations at Tessl.
Previously: Open Source Communications and Compliance Lead at Orcro.co.uk , Developer Relations Manager at Axiom, InfluxData, Canonical / Ubuntu
Podcaster for over a decade. Currently on Linux Matters. Get it wherever you find podcasts.
Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO
@[email protected]#EU Policy Analyst for the #OpenSource Initiative. Former EU Parliament Assistant. Expert in 💻Digital, 🚄Transport, and 🧪Research Policy. #fedi22 #EU #tech #ukraine #foreignpolicy Find out about my work at @[email protected]
Ian Bicking
@[email protected]Software developer from Minneapolis, long lapsed open source author, these days very focused with developing with LLMs
Looking for work/projects; previously Mozilla, Meta, Brilliant.org. he/him
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.
Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱☮🕊️
@[email protected]Teacher in #Maths & #ComputerScience
#OpenSource #foss #dev #AI #IA
& Team #NSI :arch:
Posts on #Politics, #Science, #Tech, #Education, #AI #crypto #infosec & any stuff.
RTs≠Endorsement
#free as in #f..cking #free (software, mind & world)
Let's follow ! 🤘🤙
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
Manuel Rego
@[email protected]Web Engines Hacker (Chromium & WebKit reviewer, Servo TSC Chair) - CSSWG member - Free Software/Open Source Developer - Igalia partner - he/him
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@[email protected]Senior Technical Writer @ Opplane (Lisbon, Portugal). PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher.
#TechnicalWriting #WebDev #WebDevelopment #OpenSource #FLOSS #SoftwareDevelopment #IP #PoliticalEconomy #Communication #Media #Copyright #Music #Cities #Urbanism
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.
DeeAnn Little
@[email protected]Open Source Thing-doer, wandering around the Fediverse since ca. 2010. Posts are in English and (some) German with translation help at times.
#foss #florespondence #tzag
#nobot #nobridge she/her
Prior instance (archived): https://mastodon.social/@chillicampari