Jenn976
Dare ObasanjoFound an incredibly useful app for finding people to follow on Mastodon. It crawls your social graph then finds the people who your followers follow the most that you don't follow.
jeraldina
☁️@carnage4life wow, that's neat!
greg (._.)
Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)@carnage4life huh that's interesting; I thought I was already following a lot of the people that it was suggesting, but then I clicked through and found out that I wasn't actually... wonder if it has to do with migrating instances or something?
Simon@egallager @carnage4life I had the exact same experience! Very odd.
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Bill Ricker@egallager @carnage4life
Some well be failed (partial) migrations; some are the folks we follow are so regularly boosting the good stuff we don't notice we aren't discover to the irrelevant posts of those FoaF accounts
Some well be failed (partial) migrations; some are the folks we follow are so regularly boosting the good stuff we don't notice we aren't discover to the irrelevant posts of those FoaF accounts
Quick Weasel 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jay 
@carnage4life Thank you for posting this.
kaigray@carnage4life @mmasnick thank you for sharing this. It was incredibly helpful.
Kathy Andrew@carnage4life Thanks for this!! Makes it easy whether or not to follow.
Steven Bodzin@carnage4life this is a centralizing app. It promotes the winner-take-all internet that drives me batty. All of my top results are overexposed big stars who never respond to a comment, and 5 of the top 6 are white men. I'm using but it requires pickiness!
EDIT: I think I figured out how to use this: Start at the bottom of the list. The ones on top are all people you've heard of and if you're not following them, it's probably on purpose. But lower down there are some great finds. Thank you!
Md.Poppa@carnage4life not sure I need anything 'crawling my social graph', but thanks for being upfront on what it does.
Any idea where else it sends that data to?
Any idea where else it sends that data to?
Dogzilla@MdPoppa @carnage4life I don’t know if this stores any data, but worth noting that the info this leverages is already publicly accessible by anyone through public APIs - you’re not giving permission, you’re just telling it who to extract from the available data.
Howlin’ Hobbit@carnage4life added 5 folks to my following list. all interesting, most I follow elsewhere. didn’t get through the whole list of suggestions.
Kristine K.@carnage4life Just tried it out, wow, very handy for finding new people. Thanks!
Karthik Hariharan@carnage4life It's awesome, I especially like the idea of cherry picking some of the accounts rather than mass adding every account it finds.
I'd like to re-examine whatever echo-chamber I'd built up over the years at Twitter.
AnnaIrac ☮️🫂🕉️🏳️🌈@carnage4life fantastic. Thank you!
Jacob 🫡. Ford@rauchg Vercel killing it round here.
aresi'd rather follow the people followed by the people i follow, not the people my followers follow
i know that's hard to follow
@ares The tool finds people you follow’s follows. I got it wrong by saying it looks at your follower’s follows.
scott f@carnage4life Wow, no privacy policy, and nothing in the FAQ about why we should trust them with this info? That's kind of alarming, even if the tool promises to be useful.
KadinYou're not really trusting them with any info that isn't hanging out in public already:
"This app uses public APIs to fetch potential people you can follow on Mastodon. In fact, it only does inauthenticated network requests to various Mastodon instances."
I'd imagine there are probably lots of people out there trying to scrape various instances and build up giant social graphs of Mastodon users, this one just lets you see your own.
ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon@scott @carnage4life Luckily I can at least confirm that if you set your social graph to private like I do, they won't be able to collect anything. I tried it just to see what would happen and it just couldn't get any info. Sorry this is a bit over a year late
😱 Brian Morearty@carnage4life Followgraph suggests that I follow 😱 Brian Morearty because nine people that I follow also follow him.
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D. Creemer@carnage4life Useful tool I think, but I'm worried this will just keep me in my bubble. I started at the bottom of the list (as another reply said) and tried to use it to discover more diverse voices.
Peiran Tan@carnage4life @Niloufar new ownership structure calls for new interface forms
DLS@carnage4life this is cool and is a good reminder I want to put my city in my profile.
@carnage4life great, a tool to magnify demographic inequities. what could possibly go wrong?
Pillosopher-Arjun Rajagopalan@carnage4life Many thanks. I found a few good accounts. Once you have added them to your follows, if you run this app again, it would now have to sift through the thousands of followers that your newly added follow might have. The second run would be impossible to go through. Am I right?
Martin Ruskov@arjun @carnage4life define impossible? As I see it, it just scales up, possibly exponentially. In my case numbers are still within the hundreds, which I think should be manageable. Disclaimer: it currently doesn't work for me :)
Peach Resist@carnage4life Sweet! Thanks!
Maëlig@borisschapira tu ne cherchais pas un truc comme ça l'autre jour ?
karen@carnage4life why is that useful?
Kevin Marks@carnage4life it found people that I do follow (including myself)
@carnage4life the other problem with this kind of tool is that it is a good way to find your exes and the missing stairs in your groups.
Baessito 
☭🇧🇷🇺🇳🇵🇸@carnage4life have u tested movetodon.org?? Very nice as well 😃
Jake Orlowitz@carnage4life I wish it would auto-follow the results or generate a list to import. As of now, you have to click each one!
Steve Frenzel@carnage4life this is awesome! 😍
Lance Homer@carnage4life I would prefer a social graph that didn’t really weigh how many followed the non followed account has. I am not looking to find popular account. I am looking for relevant accounts. Measuring the “next best neighbor” would be more valuable to me.
Jürgen Hubert@carnage4life Interesting, but it would be more useful if you could filter by maximum follower count. I'm more interested in finding users with fewer followers but similar interests rather than Mega-Accounts with 10K+ followers.
Reido@carnage4life Thanks! This was great. Boosted.
Mikki B 🐈🐈⬛🍷🍻🎶🎷📚@carnage4life that was very helpful; thank you!👍🏻
Joanna Bryson, blathering@carnage4life My algorithm for this is following people my followees boost :-)
ProgGrrl@carnage4life This is one of the coolest things about the Fediverse is folks are constantly creating dohickeys like these to fold into your experience…
tempomental@carnage4life nuts, I should have released the one I wrote for the bird site a couple years ago. Unfortunately, I wound up having to delete my account because it went haywire and followed so many people that my feed was unusable
Ryla@carnage4life someone needs to make a Misskey version of this lol
Gareth, a Nostalgia Nut@carnage4life Brilliant! Thanks.
@carnage4life Thanks for publicizing this great tool!
DrArtAnalytics@carnage4life
I'm excited by regrowing my network organically.
I'm excited by regrowing my network organically.
viznut | Ville-Matias Heikkilä@carnage4life Unfortunately does not seem to support non-Mastodon instances.
John Washam 🍹@carnage4life This is super! Thank you!
Dirty Hippie@carnage4life I prefer https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ (as it allows you to migrate your mutes and blocks as well, which seems overly necessary in these current times.)
Rich Stein (he/him)@carnage4life Attn: @mattblaze — 👆 Try running Followgraph, to find your "follows' follows". May give you some of that news commentary/analysis that you mentioned as missing from this site.
bernardo_olafson
Willard@carnage4life You're very own algorithm?
Ericka Simone@carnage4life thanks for this.
Jeff Atwood@carnage4life thanks for this!
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦@carnage4life Isn’t that one of the algorithms we left behind at #TheBird?
Joshua Newton@carnage4life super useful, thanks for sharing! Makes the transition over a lot easier
Josh Wold@carnage4life I was just looking for something like this!