Great article by @mmasnick with tips on how to find people to follow.

FollowGraph in particular is very useful. It finds the people that are followed by your followers, and orders them by the number of followers following them.

Okay, that was more tongue twister than useful info. But the point is, it finds the people your followers think are worth following.

It just gives their bio, and a Follow button. But the follow button doesn't actually follow, it goes to their profile, where you can see what they've posted, and follow there. That makes it a little slow, but realistically, you want to do that anyway, and this way it doesn't need your credentials, just your Mastodon address.

#FediverseTips

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/29/some-tricks-to-making-mastodon-way-more-useful/

Normally Thursday posts are for paid subs only, but this one is free. Some thoughts on how #datascience is a bit too obsessed with tools and we have room to grow in the other way too

https://counting.substack.com/p/data-science-has-a-tool-obsession

I have tracked anti-trans legislation for 3 years. Every day, people have asked me where to move or how at risk they are in their state.

So I created the anti-trans legislative risk map.

This is my final map of 2022.

Please subscribe, support my work.

https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/the-final-anti-trans-legislative

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.

EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.