Who should I be following in the Fediverse?

[poppacalypse@alpaca.gold]

@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

[poppacalypse@alpaca.gold]

@tylerlwsmith you'll love this guy @pauljan

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

@tylerlwsmith

Your best bet it to follow all those hashtags. That will populate your home feed with topics you're interested in.

[tylerlwsmith@hachyderm.io]

@MissGayle oh shoot, I didn't realize following hash tags was a thing, but now I'm seeing it on my sidebar. Great tip!

[beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tylerlwsmith @catsalad for cats and tech

[manchicken@defcon.social]

@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.

[viss@mastodon.social]

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

[alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com]

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

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@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

[edolnx@kind.social]

@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@musician.social]

@tylerlwsmith

I like the articles in MakeUseOf

@muo_official

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@tylerlwsmith

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

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/113516480482320836

[allpoints@mstdn.social]

@tylerlwsmith don't forget you can follow hashtags too

[waysideollie@mastodon.sdf.org]

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

[julian@fietkau.social]

@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.

[jasperb@mastodon.social]

@tylerlwsmith hi there, I’d recommend to follow hashtags and particular bots. Its nice that you can make your individual timeline on Mastodon. Following hashtags also helps with finding likeminded people, that share your interests. Have fun!

[tknarr@mstdn.social]

@tylerlwsmith My contribution:

@navi
@ska
@ariadne
@timbray

[ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz]

@tylerlwsmith @FediTips is a good start

[ag100pct@infosec.exchange]

@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

[supermoosie@mastodon.au]

@tylerlwsmith

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