Awesome Open Source humans on Mastodon.
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David Revoy
@[email protected]🍄 Webcomic Creator | Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips | Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools | CC-licensed | No AI
Windy city
@[email protected]Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical.
>follow me tech takes, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web.
adopt from a rescue if you can.
humanity comes first.
enshittification of technology is real.
support foss applications.
be kind, it takes nothing.
dp:diana penty
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@[email protected]Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @[email protected]. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/they https://dustycloud.org/
Recently moved here from @[email protected]
Lovely banner sketch by @juliaro https://mastodon.art/@juliaro/114489465896761273
Gina
@[email protected]Dutch gov OSPO | FOSS advocate | GovTech | Digital Sovereignty | IT nerd | DIY's ✨
One of Fosstodon's admins. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally.
Richard Stallman
@[email protected]This is the Mastodon account for Richard Stallman.
I founded GNU & the @fsf and with them launched the Free Software Movement. Please join or donate to the FSF: https://www.fsf.org
I use this account to mirror the political notes from my web site, stallman.org.
Read my linking policy: https://stallman.org/linkpolicy.html
The views expressed here, as in stallman.org, are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware
Ben Lockwood, PhD
@[email protected]Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founder/Editor of Brief Ecology | 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
Daniel Gerber
@[email protected]#nerd #opendata #opensource #birder - Stellv. Vorstandsvorsitzender @OSBA // ex-Mitglied des Sächsischen Landtags - 👨🏻💻 Entwickler von http://klimadashboard-sachsen.de und https://gitlab.com/saxgruen/saxdhh
Julian Tölle
@[email protected]Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / DevOps
Working on Open Source Integrations at @hetzner
Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
@[email protected]Mainly tooting about #Linux the #kernel and things related to the #LinuxKernel: #bootloader, #compiler, #git, #glibc, #mesa, #qemu, #xorg, #X11, #wayland, and other stuff in the 'plumbing' layer.
he/him; opinions are my own.
Topic account. Other accounts of mine:
@knurd42 (EN): #FLOSS, #Fedora as well as Life, the Universe and Everything
@thleemhuis (DE): Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest
@thleemhuisfoss (DE): #FLOSS
searchable
Taggart
@[email protected]Displaced Philly boy. Threat hunter. Educator. #infosec, #programming #rust
, #python
#haskell
, and #javascript
. #opensource advocate. General in the AI Resistance. Runs @thetaggartinstitute. Made https://wtfbins.wtf. Not your bro. All opinions my own. Dad. #fedi22 #searchable
Pronouns: He/him.
ploum
@[email protected]Joue de la machine à écrire dans un one-man-band pour défendre la liberté et l’imaginaire. Auteur de #Bikepunk.
Write SF and #cyberpunk books, free software and texts about freedom.
Pédale. Plonge dans l’eau froide.
Also on Gemini: gemini://ploum.net
Brent Simmons
@[email protected]Writes NetNewsWire, a free and open source RSS reader for Mac and iOS.
He/him.
Sarah Jamie Lewis
@[email protected]Cryptography and Privacy Researcher. President @ Open Privacy Research Society (@openprivacy).
Founder @ Blodeuwedd Labs (@blodeuweddlabs)
Building free and open source, privacy-enhancing, surveillance-resisting tech like Cwtch (@cwtch)
Elena Rossini ⁂
@[email protected]Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)
💌 #TheFutureIsFederated
📝 blog: @ele
👩💻 self-hosting newbie: @elena
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Pronouns: she/her
Languages: English, French, Italian
Note: my posts are set to auto-delete* after 1 month ⏳
*unless I bookmark them
filippodb ⁂
@[email protected]
Fondatore e amministratore di mastodon.uno, pixelfed.uno e diggita.com, membro dei @devol
Nei miei server uso Linux ed applicazioni free e open source dal 2004.
Sviluppo siti noprofit (e non solo) dal 1998.
Smanetto ininterrottamente dal 1986:
Papà dal 2018 e membro del gruppo https://devol.it con cui dal 2019 gestiamo una trentina di servizi liberi: https://servizi.devol.it
Vivo e lavoro fra Milano e Pordenone.
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.
Simon Willison
@[email protected]Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io and many other #projects.
HD Moore
@[email protected]Founder & CEO of runZero (@runZeroInc - https://runzero.com), previously the founder and lead developer of Metasploit, a CSO, a consultant, and the head of various security research teams.
My work is focused on #infosec, #security, #networking, #discovery, #osint, #postgresql, #aws, #engineering, #opensource, #devops, and #startup stuff. For fun I write #golang, build #IoT projects, and #run in circles.
Lucie / minute
@[email protected]CEO of MNT Research. OSHW laptop MNT Reform: https://mntre.com | https://shop.mntre.com | FOSS, ARM, OSHW, FPGA, Amiga, RISC-V | batcave, cyberpunk, industrial, synth/darkwave | genderqueer, sober, vegan, NoAI
Kevin P. Fleming
@[email protected]Multi-decade open source project contributor, manager, and leader. Manager of Developer Experience Engineers at Fastly. Previously Principal Program Manager at Red Hat helping to deliver RHEL. Previously Head of Open Source Programs at Bloomberg
I write code, and publish code, and break code, and spend far too much time with Ansible and highly-overengineered home networking, and DNS, and GPS, and... it never ends.
Co-human to three cats along with my significant other.
Peter Steinberger
@[email protected]vibe coding on my next thing 🏳️🌈
Everything I build: open source on GitHub.
Currently work: https://www.peekaboo.boo https://vt.sh https://polter.build https:// https://llm.codes