Who should I be following in the Fediverse?
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith I have good news for you, that's basically 90% of the people here.

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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!
@GigaByte4711 @tylerlwsmith this link is broken.
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@tylerlwsmith I have good news for you, that's basically 90% of the people here.

@catraxx @tylerlwsmith true story.
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith I chat about Space & Junk and Irish & Danish stuff. Stuff that interests me.
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith shameless self-advertisement. I post a lot of non-tech stuff but occasionally I do some way-too-long tech deep dive like this one: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863
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@tylerlwsmith shameless self-advertisement. I post a lot of non-tech stuff but occasionally I do some way-too-long tech deep dive like this one: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863
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@GigaByte4711 @tylerlwsmith this link is broken.
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.
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith For gamedev have a browse through the mastodon.gamedev.place server and also check the #indiedev #gamedev tags. Lots of people making interesting stuff.
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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.
@GigaByte4711 if I tried a VPN server in Japan, it worked. Germany and Canada, it doesn't work for me.
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Plus a special call out below to some of our old Twitter mutuals. Unfortunately, some are inactive.
@andycarolan
@sarajw
@poppacalypse
@chrispian
@heyJTK
@shaundai
@shookcodes@sysop408 thanks for the mention! @sarajw @poppacalypse @chrispian @heyJTK @shaundai @shookcodes
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@godotengine for game dev
@gamingonlinux for news about playing games on linux -
Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
In case this is useful, here's a list of all the different ways to discover people to follow on here: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith it's prob been mentioned but - follow hashtags, lots of hashtags. Coming from twitter you'll be reluctant to, as I was, but it's glorious!
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@GigaByte4711 if I tried a VPN server in Japan, it worked. Germany and Canada, it doesn't work for me.
Might be worth pinging one of the admins about it being unavailable there:
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith Just look at the local timelines from hachyderm, gamedev.lgbt and tech.lgbt
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
@tylerlwsmith @eniko for lots of reasons.
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@tylerlwsmith @eniko for lots of reasons.
@ivor @tylerlwsmith should i boost this post? you might get a lot more replies than you bargained for >_>
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@tylerlwsmith seconding @catsalad, also @deviantollam, @dramypsyd, @Alice@beige.party, @skeletor, and most of the folx who reply to my posts regularly—they're all lovely

@alice@lgbtqia.space @tylerlwsmith @catsalad @deviantollam @dramypsyd @skeletor I was about to pop in and be like "I think someone tagged the wrong Alice" but then I realized that the person who tagged me is the right Alice who also happens to be my favorite Alice!
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Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
As you're not on a self-hosted instance all by yourself you could have a look at your instances "Trending" or "Live feed" timeline. And there you've "This server" as well as "All" [all that are federated with your instance] and "Other servers" (which is the same as all but without everything that is also in "This server").
Then follow everyone that posts about things you like. That's basically it

Oh and you can also follow hashtags. You may also check those out, too.
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@ivor @tylerlwsmith should i boost this post? you might get a lot more replies than you bargained for >_>
@eniko @tylerlwsmith .... Incoming replies.....