150 nerdy fun accounts
The advice I got when I joined Mastodon was to follow at least 200 people if you don't want to have an empty feed. Then follow anyone else who seems interesting, and unfollow them later if they annoy you. So when I invite people to Mastodon, I want to be able to give them a starter pack of 200 accounts I follow that they can follow too. Unfortunately 150 is the maximum size! This is a general purpose list of people I like.
George Takei
🏳️🌈🖖🏽
@[email protected]
Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet
Eugen Rochko
@[email protected]Executive Strategy & Product Advisor of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Fedi.Tips
@[email protected]Posting tips and answering questions about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse 🙂
There are lots of guides on my site at https://fedi.tips. If you can't find your answer @ or DM me, there's no such thing as a silly question!
I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https://liberapay.com/FediThing
Maintained by @FediThing, banner artwork is by @posiputt
🎂 Account originally joined mstdn.social on 16th Nov 2020
Ars Technica
@[email protected]Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
Official Ars Technica account. 🟠
ProPublica
@[email protected]The official Mastodon page for ProPublica.
Pursuing stories with moral force.
Low Quality Facts
@[email protected]Low Quality Facts written in arguably lower quality handwriting.
Project Gutenberg
@[email protected]Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks.
For more information, visit our website at:
www.gutenberg.org
Kevin Beaumont
@[email protected]Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.
I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.
Cory Doctorow
@[email protected]By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
@doctorow.
Archived at pluralistic.net
I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net.
FediFollows
@[email protected]Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐
You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https://fedi.directory
I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https://liberapay.com/FediThing
Maintained by @FediThing
🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Drew Harwell
@[email protected]Washington Post tech reporter
Lisa Melton
@[email protected]My name is Elizabeth but please call me Lisa.
I'm probably best known as the person who started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple. You may think you know my deadname but... you don't.
I've drawn underground comics, pioneered using a Mac for newspaper graphics and developed software at Adobe and Netscape.
Now I work in #GameDev and write video #transcoding tools.
Follow me and I'll fill your timeline with boosts.
Mike Masnick ✅
@[email protected]Techdirt guy. I once wrote a paper about "Protocols, not Platforms" that seems to be slightly relevant. Also can follow my Bluesky posts at @mmasnick.bsky.social
Wonder of Science
@[email protected]"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein
John Gruber
@[email protected]I write Daring Fireball, host The Talk Show, and created Markdown.
Abandoned America
@[email protected]I'm Matthew Christopher, creator of the Abandoned America website, podcast, and book series about the beautiful and fascinating ruins in our midst. Photos are mine unless credited otherwise. Not a photo bot, so I post about other things from time to time. AI sucks.
Rolling Stone
@[email protected]The latest news and more from Rolling Stone magazine and RollingStone.com
MeidasTouch
@[email protected]
Producing the most influential and impactful pro-democracy content in the world. Meidas Media Network. MeidasTouch PAC. Meidas Merch. Because TRUTH is golden. #MeidasTouch #MeidasMighty
Carl T. Bergstrom
@[email protected]I am a biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
I love ravens and crows.
he/him
Jennifer Taub
@[email protected]Law Professor and Author of Big Dirty Money (Viking 2020) and Other People’s Houses (Yale Press 2014). #lawprofs #lawfedi #Writing #Dogs #coffee #podcast #taxjustice
Casey Newton
@[email protected]Email salesman at Platformer and podcast co-host at Hard Fork. [email protected]
Scalzi
@[email protected]I enjoy pie.
glitch girl
Anil Dash
@[email protected]I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at [email protected] or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. #tfr
web3 is going just great
@[email protected]tracking only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, defi, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects since 2021 • created by @molly0xfff
Prof Brian Cox
@[email protected]Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science.
The Verge
@[email protected]The official account by https://theverge.com
Charlotte Clymer
@[email protected]Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. She. | [email protected] | subscribe: http://charlotteclymer.substack.com #BLM
Matt Blaze
@[email protected]Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
Bellingcat
@[email protected]Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
Want to support our charity? http://bellingcat.com/donate/
Buy our book "We Are Bellingcat" here: http://bit.ly/2EP09EN
Our award-winning podcast series: http://apple.co/36LJURI
Eric Topol
@[email protected]physician-scientist, author, editor
Open Science ✅
@[email protected]Science must be opened — because science opens everything else! Sapere aude!
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Boosts are most welcome 👍
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#Science #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData #reproducibility #OpenSource #foss #privacy #UnrestrictedFreeSpeech
kottke.org
@[email protected]home of fine hypertext products since 1998
𝘀𝘁𝘂𝘅☀️
@[email protected]I am also the web cat @stux 
From the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Social media needs to be fun, safe and secure again. Our team and I are working hard to keep that possible here for you♥️
Don’t forget: questions or any other chitchat are always welcome, we are on a social platform after all!
Chief TWiT
@[email protected]
Leo Laporte, podcaster & tech pundit. Founder of the TWiT Podcast Network https://twit.tv. Admin at twit.social. Blog and contact info at https://leo.fm/about
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
@[email protected]Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington
Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS)
If we don't know each other, I probably won't reply to your DM. For more, see my contacting me page: http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/contact/
Chris Hallbeck
@[email protected]Cartoonist. Animator.
Charlie Stross
@[email protected]Scottish resident SF/F author (he/him/they/them). Three times Hugo Award winner, 30+ novels in print. Does not play well with Nazis. Abolish the monarchy!
Born in a world with 320ppm atmospheric CO2, 3.3 billion people.
@cstross.bsky.social on Bluesky
blog at: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
FOLLOW REQUESTS: don't expect a reciprocal follow. And I will reject requests from folks with no profile and/or no tooting history.
James Gunn
@[email protected]DC, etc.
BBC News
@[email protected]I'm a bot by @see
Jeff Atwood
@[email protected]co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, staygold.us, blogger. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well. Let's be kind to each other. 💛
Micro SF/F by O. Westin
@[email protected]Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin. Please Boost any you like.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/microsff
Home: http://microsff.com/
XKCD Bot
@[email protected]I really like xkcd, so I post them here as soon as they are released. Feel free to boost or favorite my toots if you enjoy them. – Made by @lx in #Rust
Thomas Fuchs
@[email protected]20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography.
Sabrina Ryan
@[email protected]𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 ✨ @arsnovanyc
Prof Alice Roberts
@[email protected]Anatomist, anthropologist, author & broadcaster; Prof of Public Engagement in Science. University of Birmingham; all views my own
Alex Winter
@[email protected]Filmmaker, actor.
Fesshole 🧻
@[email protected]Official Fesshole account on Mastodon - Rob Manuel reads your 100-400 confessions submitted a day and chooses what to post.
A https://b3ta.com production
James Gleick
@[email protected]Author.
The Telephone: A New History
Chaos. Genius. The Information. Time Travel.
myrmepropagandist
@[email protected]pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.🎖️(<<Medal Awarded for the time when there were too many people.)
Proverbs 6:6
bug haters DNI
If you only use bluesky follow me here:
https://bsky.app/profile/
I am a single human person not an ant colony.