Mastodawn

@malwaretech
@briankrebs
@evacide
@mathowie
@SwiftOnSecurity
@jensimmons
@NanoRaptor
@jessamyn
@baldur
@GossiTheDog
@anildash
@web3isgreat
@eff
@kcarruthers
@lcamtuf
@pauliehedron
@craiggrannell
@hacks4pancakes
@Meyerweb
@grimalkina
@b0rk
@vaurora
@molly0xfff
@jenniferplusplus
@jerry
@lisamelton
@paninid
@beep
@SuperSelena64
@malcircuit
@mattblaze
@stephaniewalter
@peter

Sheldon Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith OK, here's my list of tech and tech adjacent accounts to follow (in no particular order):

Oh hi @sysop408 @tylerlwsmith !

Gosh there are dozens, dozens of us!

@sarajw @sysop408 and together we are mighty!

@andycarolan
@sarajw
@poppacalypse
@chrispian
@heyJTK
@shaundai
@shookcodes

Sheldon Feb 19

Plus a special call out below to some of our old Twitter mutuals. Unfortunately, some are inactive.

Carl Poppa 🛸Feb 20

@sysop408 @andycarolan @sarajw @chrispian @heyJTK @shaundai @shookcodes thanks for the shoutout Sheldon! i need to start being more active on here. Tyler is right, Twitter is getting sad.

@tylerlwsmith thanks for the follow! nice to meet you :)

Tyler Smith Feb 20

@poppacalypse nice to meet you too!

Andy Carolan

Feb 20

@sysop408 thanks for the mention! @sarajw @poppacalypse @chrispian @heyJTK @shaundai @shookcodes

Eldritch kcarruthers Feb 19

@sysop408 🙏💕

@sysop408 great list! I just followed everyone on it that I wasn't already following 😁

🍱 Sean ☕Feb 19

This is a good place to find people who want to be found under certain interests: https://communitywiki.org/trunk

Once you start following people on these lists, you're more likely to be exposed to even more people that talk about your interests!

I for one post about my #homelab and #selfhosting!

Leave X - Protect Democracy Feb 20

@GigaByte4711 @tylerlwsmith this link is broken.

🍱 Sean ☕Feb 20

@leavex

It looks like the site is protected by anti-scrape tech and some form of captca/verification.

I've tested on multiple devices and networks, the site works.

Leave X - Protect Democracy Feb 20

@GigaByte4711 if I tried a VPN server in Japan, it worked. Germany and Canada, it doesn't work for me.

@alex
@Mayana
@carbontwelve
@austin

🍱 Sean ☕Feb 20

@leavex

Might be worth pinging one of the admins about it being unavailable there:

@SaraSoueidan
@stephaniewalter
@adactio
@tink
@SheHacksPurple
@cwebber
@jensimmons
@Floppy

Bruno Girin Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith I suggest you follow:

And a lot more awesome people I forgot about.

@brunogirin great list, thank you! I hit the follow button for everyone on it 😊

Daniil Baturin Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith @brunogirin Just checking: do you know that you can follow hashtags on Fediverse, rather than just individual accounts?

That's how I found most individual people I follow — by seeing their posts in my hashtag follow feed.

LukasArmstrong Feb 20

@dmbaturin @tylerlwsmith @brunogirin What hashtags do you recommend? I'm fairly new myself and all the ones I've seen so far are low user/activity.

Edit: I found some, but still open to recommendations

Verain Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith @nyrath is mostly a space guy, but he posts about other science stuff too.

@Verain hell yeah space is rad

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith @Verain

You may find my website entertaining

Atomic Rockets - Atomic Rockets

Mia

Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith here are a few that come to mind:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Andrea (Drea) Tamar Pinski Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith For GNU toolchain weekly news letter:
@gnutoolsweekly

Marcos Dione Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith follow hashtags for a while, see who you find :)

dxzdb Feb 20

@mdione @tylerlwsmith definitely second following hashtags! Also look for people you followed before on Xitter…

Also, if you happen to be on Apple platforms, buying @ivory is a huge plus! I think of this because at times you'll want to mute said hashtags and I don't think you can do that without a decent app.

Quinn Comendant Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith @rysiek Follow hashtags! Then you’ll see the posts about topics you like, and will find new people who post on those topics. E.G., #buildInPublic, #webDev, #programming, #devTools, #UI, #homeLab

James Baillie Feb 19

@tylerlwsmith Lots of people on the game dev instances. @MAMG and @Exilian might both be of interest on the game dev adjacent side?

Lefty Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith
Me!
Pick me!
🙋

reyjkw Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith I will just casually bookmark this thread so I can follow most people here later

Carl Poppa 🛸Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith you'll love this guy @pauljan

Bee O'Problem

Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith @catsalad for cats and tech

manchicken Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith Don't forget @pluralistic, @2600 , @benbrown , @lambdacalculus , @Wrewdison , @micahflee , and @socketwench . Oooh, @catsalad as well!

TOO MANY FRIENDS! Please feel free to peruse the list of folks I follow. There are a lot of fun people to follow.

@manchicken absolutely killer list of recommendations–thank you!

Viss Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith i spend an embarassing amount of time on home assistant, and mocking computer security!

@Viss sounds neat! I hit follow so I can keep up with what you're doing 😁

Viss Feb 21

@tylerlwsmith check this out, you may dig it: https://youtu.be/ScwNIWzk4RQ?si=EHGXzvcJdCTtzupS

SEC-T 0x11: Dan Tentler - How to bug hotel rooms v2.0

YouTube

Alison Wilder Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith sounds like you have plenty of suggestions...given your list, you have definitely come to the right place!

Mx. Eddie R Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith
A few good ones:
* @sundogplanets is an astronomer who talks about space junk (and space junk that has become Saskatchewan junk)
* @mos_8502 posts about electronics and stuff, and is making a neo-retro game console
* @futurebird posts about ants with such joy and enthusiasm that you find yourself excited about ants too
* @sinituulia posts about cats and clothes and sewing and silliness
* @eclectech makes cute and silly pictures
* @moonrabbit makes raku ceramic spirits and friends

eclectech Feb 20

@silvermoon82 Aw, thanks 😊

laen🪻Feb 20

@silvermoon82
aw thank you, gentle friend. what a lovely group in which to be included!

i hope the snow is going ok?

Carl Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith Welcome! I would suggest following some hashtags around your favorite languages, game tooling, and we dev tools and you'll pick up interesting folks to engage with and follow pretty quickly

Anne Delong Feb 20

I like the articles in MakeUseOf

@muo_official

Mastodon Migration Feb 20

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra[email protected]/113516480482320836

Here is a resource. Not the easiest thing to use, but lots of accounts to follow including plenty of infosec folks.

Mastodon

Allpoints Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith don't forget you can follow hashtags too

waysideollie Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith you can follow hashtags and find people through their posts.

Julian Fietkau Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith Hi Tyler! 🖐️ I don't usually do this when someone asks who's worth following, but your list of topics makes me want to self-nominate. Lately my posts have been about half/half between fediverse development and human-computer interaction, where I do academic work. But I've previously posted about everything you've listed. 🙂

@julian yep, your timeline has some neat stuff on it! I followed so I can see more of it 😁

Todd Knarr Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith My contribution:

@navi
@ska
@ariadne
@timbray

@tknarr thanks for the recommendations!

Spark Purcell (they/them)Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith @FediTips is a good start

Sterling Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith
haven't seen some of these post in a bit...but...
Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell
Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy
Mike Masnick ✅️ @mmasnick
NicoleBeckwith @NicoleBeckwith
BBcan177 @BBcan177
BrianKrebs @briankrebs
Tom Lawrence @tomlawrence
Chris Titus Tech @christitus
Jack Rhysider ⏯ @jackrhysider
https://darknetdiaries.com
nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft

Darknet Diaries – True stories from the dark side of the Internet.

@AG100pct killer recommendations, I hit follow on loads of them!

Supermoosie Feb 20

Following people with similar interests is cool and all.

But what I like is people who have different interests and experience.

The mediaeval historian who went investigating why eels where everywhere in records of the time.

The guy trying to work out why there is a faint am radio station replaying the same songs everyday, where there shouldn't be any signal

The bee keeper
The info sec guy
People doing niche hobbies
The retro computer people

Stuff I didn't know about, but have learnt from.

Add some artists, pet pictures, nature photos etc to cleanse

CompulsoryAccount7746 Feb 20

@SuperMoosie @tylerlwsmith Who was chasing radio signals?

Which beekeeper do you mean?

"Surprised Eel Historian" (greenleejw) used to be on historians.social, but that instance no longer exists. I think they disappeared with it rather than migrate to another instance.

Bernie the Wordsmith Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith Very likely everyone must be telling you that your query matches, well, almost everyone here? 😂 Best piece of advice: find some people and then check who they follow if they allow it. Also, follow some super retooters like @PixelRobot and check @FediFollows

Bill Feb 20

Many of the people I follow have been mentioned. I would also add @alice

Doug Feb 20

@tylerlwsmith hi there… instead of following specific people, you may want to start by following the hashtags you’re interested in. For example, #Development #HomeLabEt cetera.