The best Open Source humans on Mastodon.
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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
Julian Fietkau
@[email protected]Human-computer interaction #HCI, computer science & programming, home server & self-hosting, games and other fun stuff.
Fediverse tool builder: @encyclia, @canary, FediRoster, Pinhole, ... see https://fietkau.software/tag/fediverse for more. I also help out with @fedidevs. If you do HCI-related research, check out https://directory.hci.social.
He/him. Posting mostly in English, but you might see the occasional German boost.
Lorenzo Ancora 🇪🇺🇮🇹
@[email protected]
Founder of the Free Software Database
#developer · #webmaster · #sysadmin
I'm a friendly geek committed to user freedom and computer literacy.
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#it #foss #free #freesoftware #opensource #software #fedi22 #activism #hacking #programming #italian #linux
Gina
@[email protected]Dutch gov OSPO | Open Source | GovTech | Digital Sovereignty | Gaming | 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.
loves 🍵, 📷, and 🌌.
#NoAI in my work.
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
@[email protected]«Try again. Fail again. Fail better.»
Ranty Open Sourcerer.
Foodie. Hiker. Cyclist.
Personal account.
🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️🌈🕯 💉😷
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@[email protected]Technical Writer @ UJET.cx (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
I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.
I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.
#RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RodentsOfMastodon #electronics #retro #1970s #70s #blinkenlights
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)
🇪🇺 🇵🇱 · 🇧🇦 🇮🇸 · 🇺🇦
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
Hello!👋😊
Self-hosted Canon/Zwo photographer, mainly Icelandic landscape
Retired IT company director, 71 yo she/her in Scotland
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 👇
regina_nyckelharpista
@[email protected]folk musician wildly inspired by nature 🎶
biologist, gardener, crafter, cat magnet 🐈⬛ 🌱
based in Germany
interested in #ecology #biodiversity #noDigGardening #pottery #botany #sewing #sustainability #veganCooking #artnouveau #cretanLyra #folkInstruments #cats #nativeBees #nativePlants #sourdough #antifa #climatejustice #fckafd #freepalestine #veganfortheanimals #repairing #mending #foss
english / deutsch / svenska
Akseli
@[email protected]KDE
dev by day, hobbyist gamedev by night. Generalist FOSS contributor. Finnish AuDHD neurodisaster. I like metal, industrial and EBM music, and I love FPS, RPG and spacesim games. Pan enby. Panby?
I love FOSS and Linux. I want to help make gaming better on Linux desktop.
Does not want to talk about "AI", LLMs, cryptoscams.
My opinions are always my own. Like my shitposts.
Banner by @Neotheta
Check https://scalie.zone/@aks/112251862581578956 for full image
Avatar by [fefairy](https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59975526/)
My posts often include foul language. They also get deleted in one month.
🇫🇮 Tööttään ja paskon välillä myös suomeksi. Sori siitä.
María Arias de Reyna
@[email protected]she/her
🐈 Cat lady, atheist, feminist 🏳️🌈
Chaotic Good
#Java Champion
Software Engineer and #OpenJDK developer at IBM
ex-President of @osgeo
#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource enthusiast, #SVQTech
If you don't like me at my worst jokes, you don't deserve me at my best.
"The postings on this site are my own and don’t represent my employer."
#fedi22
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
@[email protected]Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.
Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of @ideemarque + @atypica, and Managing Partner at @regento.
Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22
Pensador Caolho
@[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.
sb the chippy-choppy
@[email protected]civilisation is dying and i aint try'na deny it
help your community
I work in #audio, formerly #software & #electronics
I do #opensource #dev #selfhosting
I #design and #print #stickers, #posters, #tshirts
#anarchist #antiFascist #antiOligarch #antiAI #musician #jazz #punk
#LongCovid #MECFS #wearAMask
#union #IATSE 680
admin metroholografix.ca
formerly [email protected]
Danny Garside
@[email protected]Thinking about what the future of research might look like. Community manager for https://mastodon.social/@digiresacademy
Starting a @RadicalRoutes housing co-op in NE London: https://perennialhousingcoop.uk
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing
#Color #Colour #ColorVision #ColourVision
#Neuroscience #Psychology
#Buddhism
#OpenSouce #Repair #logseq #Fairphone
#Cooperatives #coop #SolarPunk #antifa #HousingCoops #Anarchism #Anticapitalism
#London
#BiInSci #Polyamory
#woodpeckers #Rhubarb
Previously: fosstodon.org/@da5nsy
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
@[email protected]working for a value-based economy, helping people and organisations to join the transition and build a human centred digital age.
Co-founder of Free Knowledge Institute, femProcomuns cooperative, Meet.coop, CommonsCloud, TTN.cat/XOIC.coop. Fellow @ Commons Network, former director PublicSpaces.net.
#commons #digitalcommons #cooperative #sustainability #businessmodels #FreeCulture #holochain #iot #LibreSoftware #OpenSource #SovereignTech #DigitalAutonomy #PublicSpaces #DemocraticTech #DTF
Alex Band
@[email protected]Soldered together an Apple ][ in the 80s and never stopped tinkering since. Lives in Amsterdam. Enjoys boats, cats and pineapples. ⚓️🐈🍍
Responsible for keeping the lights on at @nlnetlabs, makers of fine open-source software for BGP routing and DNS. 
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]