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What and who to follow on Mastodon? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BudgetBandit to c/[email protected]

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New to mastodon, never used Twitter, refuse to use Xitter. Any tips and who and what to follow? And who and what do you follow?

Edit: thank you all for your responses! I’ll definitely check out the accounts you suggested! Looking through hashtags I like and popular ones sounds like a great addition!

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[–] Ziggurat 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How big is your instance ?

On a medium sized instance, The local feed might be a good start-up to find "popular users and hashtags" (Actually, I don't do it on Lemmy, but may-be I should)

What stuff do you find interesting ? You can follow writer like Greg Egan or Neil Gaiman, you can fallow European agencies like the one in charge of data protection, and then tons of bloggers, streamers, and other users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yo Neil Gaiman has a masto? Following that, brb...