who are some good people to follow who aren't just tooting about Mastodon itself or Mastodon in-jokes all the time?
@bcrypt lol if you don't want toots about Mastodon go back to birbsite
@bcrypt er... I was picking them up from your follower list :/
@bcrypt I also want a few suggestions.
@DivineOmega @bcrypt Jonathan McDowell aka @planet4589 knows plenty of interesting things about space launches and space activities. Real conversations, not just one-sided publishing.
@juhamac @bcrypt @DivineOmega At least, I'm hoping for more real conversations! At the moment I'm mostly shoving stuff out there in the hope that someone will bite...
@bcrypt sorry that was a joke but also I don't know anybody good to follow, no
@bcrypt we've got a bunch at securitymastod.one like @r4stl1n @zacharykeeton @adonis28850
@scriptjunkie @adonis28850 @zacharykeeton @bcrypt o/ you will find me talking about red team and red team accessories. Anything security related and sometimes just a bit of hardware stuff.
@bcrypt Now I wouldn't want to toot my own horn-- so I won't.
@bcrypt There's a lot of folks on the toot.cat instance that post cats; there's some neat folks at witches.town; @djsundog
has some fun stuff;
@bcrypt Also, hashtags work properly here - so you can search for, e.g., #programming and find actual posts about that.
@munin @bcrypt Nope. Every hashtag instead directs to people talking about Mastodon.
@bcrypt also @body @SexyCyborg are good (hello those people!). I cannot find other people because I am on my phone I just randomly click on folk on the federated stream it's all I know how to do
@bcrypt Gotta join up with oulipo.social. Toots in that instantiation all focus on that community's crazy constraints.
@bcrypt ...but it's not Mastodon!
@bcrypt @tonks is my cat who definitely does not tweet about mastodon.
@bcrypt Mostly I toot about how my Avatar isn't broken, lately.
@Elucidating Wait... are animated gif avatars back? They still animate on profiles? Cool.

@bcrypt Well, if it interests you, @flourish is trying to start up Mastodon's One Direction fandom...

and also @blackle is... highly suggested.

And also @acw (if you aren't already following him) is, like, an APL programmer that somehow isn't mythical (maybe).

@bcrypt I'm good :-) I don't write all that much though...
@bcrypt Personally I can only advice you, since you're the only one active in my feed... sorry!
@bcrypt people who use it like Twitter. 😊
@bcrypt what's this "Mastodon" thing you speak of? :grin:
@bcrypt i'm gonna say @algernon and his keyboard account @kbp for making it harder to wait for keyboardio to ship (:

@bcrypt - The very starting point in the current #Mastodon platform seems to get new users talking about that immediately, myself included.

I loose my attention almost immediately when presented with an arbitrary flow of posts completely unrelated to each other and not possible to group or filter or make sense of in any fashion (as the local/federated timeline columns work ATM).

#MastodonStrategy
#InformationOverload
#Taxonomy

@bcrypt - So I myself would like to discuss the challenges of dealing with #InformationOverload, for example, but how do I "promote" myself as one interested in that topic for newcomers?

How do you find me if you were interested in the same? The lack of exploration features makes most of us start talking about the functionality of #Mastodon immediately...

I think #Mastodon just might be THE thing the world needs to evolve into the next stage of #SocialMedia, if we make a good #MastodonStrategy

@bcrypt
I thought mastodon was developed to have a space to talk about mastodon?

Anyway, here're some that use mastodon/plemora differently:

@bob
(Free Software hacker and maintainer of the Freedombone project.)

@aral
(Cyborg rights activist, developer, designer.)

@yaelwrites
independent journalist * The Intercept, Wired, Ars, Motherboard, Slate, etc.

@kittybecca
queer ≈surrealist poet, dork, anti-hierarchy anti-capitalist otherworldist

1/2
#ff #followfriday

2/2

@acrata
US anarchist expat in Bangkok. Primary influences Kropotkin & Goldman. Trans woman

@micahflee
Digital security/software dev/journalist

@rysiek
Hacker, activist, free-softie; CISO at https://occrp.org

@thefinalstrawradio
Weekly anarchist radio show & podcast from Asheville, NC.

#ff #followfriday

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@paulfree14 @acrata @micahflee @thefinalstrawradio thanks! That's a pretty amazing group of people to be in!