Dan DiamondWhat are some Mastodon accounts that are particularly good on politics, policy and public health? Looking to find more folks to follow, and would love recommendations!
Capt. Tony@Ddiamond If you're looking for progressive viewpoints and decency, I'd suggest following @TonyStark, and the other great people on his instance and in his feeds. If you're looking to troll or pick fights, he's quite adept at blocking and banning hate, bigotry and misogyny.
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Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor
Erin Kissane@Ddiamond idk if you’re already following @HelenBranswell and @jaspar from STAT but they’re here, along with @kakape and @erictopol.
John Gordon@Ddiamond DeLong and Krugman have accounts. I wish there were some neoliberal/centrist perspectives. Mastodon is very left.
C.H. Romatowski@Ddiamond @betsyladyzhets with the great NIH story yesterday, is here as is the outlet that ran it, @STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/20/long-covid-nih-billion/
Rebecca Segers@Ddiamond It's felt like a slow change but more are here every day. Welcome to a new place to focus your work and energy! @willoremus @gretathunberg @Brandi_Buchman @pbump
Leon Cowle
David Slifka@Ddiamond glad you’re here! Enjoyed your tweets on the other place.
You’ve gotten many great suggestions already. Without an algorithm, you may find you need to follow more people here to get a lively feed.
For individual follows, @DataDrivenMD’s https://fedifollows.fedified.com/ is top notch. If you want a one-click jumpstart, there’s http://follows.spreadmastodon.org.
And https://spreadmastodon.org/mastodon-explainer/ explains how Mastodon is a network of sites, unlike Twitter/FB/etc.
Good luck!
CartyBoston@Ddiamond I would recommend me if you like uninhibited ranting about the application of technology in healthcare
Steve Porter
Jan Penfrat@Ddiamond depends on the country. https://eupolicy.social has a couple of excellent policy accounts.
LionelB
Gingerlina
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸follow (random selection, slightly touching on policy, no public health though)
@ProPublica
@politico
@JuliusGoat
@lauren
@mmasnick
@Popehat
Cory Doctorow @doctorow has taken a few swings at US health-industry, but haven't seen much from him here of late
John Bell 🇺🇦🇪🇺🔸🕷️🏴
Augie Ray@johngbell95 @Ddiamond Thank you, John. And welcome Dan.
LGsMom@Ddiamond @laffy is great at re-tooting tweets and tweet threads.
Thorongil@Ddiamond for EU politics, privacy, data protection I recomend to follow member oft parlament @echo_pbreyer
The Conversation U.S.@Ddiamond May we humbly recommend ourselves, a nonprofit news organization covering those areas, with areticles written by experts?
tvaughan
A Concerned Scientist
ParabolicMirror@Ddiamond I haven't seen @Teri_Kanefield listed yet, she provides excellent analysis of legal issues, especially political ones.
BlueDot🇺🇦
Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸@Ddiamond For a Canadian perspective on health @picardonhealth
Flying_Donny for democracy
Jrny127@Ddiamond I’m a liberal thinker that loves yelling and screaming at #gop #whitenationalists #StupidPolitics to call out their #hypocrisy buy no one seems to care!
Carlo Gubitosa 
@Ddiamond before exploring accounts you can start to explore communities. If you are interested in EU politics, for example, the mastodon instance of EU institutions is on https://social.network.europa.eu/
Then you can add /directory or /explore (for older versions) to the main link of the instance to browse for profiles worth to follow:
https://social.network.europa.eu/directory
You can start from the local profiles (see screenshot) and then explore the "known fediverse" visible from that server.
Julie Bell@Ddiamond thanks for these suggestions