Thomas Gronfeldt#newonmastodon question: what’s a good way to find people to follow? My usuals strategy from back in my Twitter days of checking who those I follow, follow, doesn’t work because of the server setup.
RuthRosselson@tgs if you find out, let me know cos I haven’t worked it out either
@RuthRosselson Just got a very useful reply from @NinaWilson
Nina Wilson@tgs Looks at the local and federated feeds (easier on laptop than phone) and click on people with good stuff to say. Also search for topics you're interested in and find people and posts from there.
@NinaWilson Thanks! I’ll give that a go!
TheTiredOne 🇿🇦@tgs go to # tags and enter some topics that you're interested in.. Read the posts and follow the people who's posts resonate 😊
Heidi Lorenzen@tgs #hashtags! Search for all the terms you’re interested in as hashtags and skim the feed that appears. To a certain degree #fridayfollow has netted me a few fascinating folks. Lastly, be sure to explore the Federated “channel” too and see whose posts pop out.
Jordan Kanarek@tgs you can also go to explore -> for you on the web interface. I'm not sure how great the recommendations are there, but there are, but that is where they are.
Rylan@tgs My strategy on Mastodon has been find people that boost a variety of other people which exposes me to a lot of different accounts. Then when I see a boost post of someone new to me, I check their profile to see if I should follow.
I always err on the side of Follow Now, Decide Later if I’m unsure, so I can taste test someone’s posts in my feed if I think I might like them
The accounts I follow with high quality boosts in #InfoSec , #Tech & some other topics:
- @GossiTheDog
- @neil
- @hacks4pancakes
- @dnsprincess (how I found you!)
Bonus: my instance’s admin (@jerry ) boosts a lot of relevant accounts on my instance - and also @notjustbikes boosts lots of cool people that like bikes, trains, & mass transit
Jeremy "Candyman" Thompson@rylancole @tgs @GossiTheDog @neil @hacks4pancakes @jerry @notjustbikes @dnsprincess Thanks, just realized I somehow wasn't following @jerry....
Tal@rylancole thanks for these suggestions! I'm still struggling to fill my feed with interesting people. Maybe I should heed the Follow Now Decide Later advice instead of over-vetting followage like I used to on Twitter
Kevan@rylancole @tgs I'll follow an account as long as there's not a lot of spam on it. But generally people are cool on Mastodon.