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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐
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🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
🎨 Video accounts about #Art & #Artists to follow:
@helenmclaughlin - Painter posting detailed timelapses of how they create their art
@jamesakers - Sculptor of glass, neon, electronics, social commentary
@coreyartus - Illustrator & painter with long-form & timelapse videos, paints animals, nature, fairy tales etc
@potterybyosa - Ceramic artist & potter
@brandkopf - Paints & draws realistic detailed scenes & figures, often fantasy themes
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
♀️ #Women & #Feminism accounts to follow for #InternationalWomensDay:
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social - Prominent women & history of women's rights
@animefeminist@mstdn.social - Covering anime from feminist viewpoint
@hermathsstory@mathstodon.xyz - Highlighting women of mathematics
@vagina_museum@masto.ai - First museum of gynae anatomy
@lunastation@wandering.shop - Speculative fiction magazine by female writers
@firestorm@kolektiva.social - Queer feminist collective in North Carolina USA
@Pkbwood@mastodon.online - Director of Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies at York Univ. in Toronto
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
🇳🇱 #Netherlands official government accounts:
(All in Dutch)
@acm@social.overheid.nl - Autoriteit Consument & Markt
@AdviescollegeICTtoetsing@social.overheid.nl - Adviescollege ICT-toetsing
@aivd@social.overheid.nl - Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst
@belastingdienst@social.overheid.nl - Belastingdienst
@bij12@social.overheid.nl - BIJ12 werkt voor provincies
@CBSstatistiek@social.overheid.nl - Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
@communitymanager@social.overheid.nl - Social.overheid.nl Support
@developer@social.overheid.nl - developer.overheid.nl
@DigitaleOverheid@social.overheid.nl - Digitale Overheid
@dji@social.overheid.nl - Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
:linux: Video accounts about #Linux to follow:
@vkc - Video guides to Linux, FOSS etc
@gbryant - Videos on Linux gaming & FOSS news
@thelinuxexperiment - Linux & FOSS news
@art - Linux & FOSS tutorial vids & vlogs
@linuxuserspace - Linux history & news
@veggero - KDE developer's vlog
@hatnix - Linux gaming (in German & English)
@ronnietucker - Full Circle podcast, Ubuntu & Linux community news
@kde_community - Official KDE video account
@las - Linux App Summit video account
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
The world is getting scarier right now 😞 If you need to take a breather and recharge, these might help:
➡️ If you want calm, @Coreyartus@mindly.social is an illustrator doing relaxing art sessions, sort of like Bob Ross. You can follow his video account at @coreyartus@makertube.net and browse vids at https://makertube.net/a/coreyartus/videos
➡️ If you want energy, @labr@ravenation.club is a DJ collective doing eclectic sets featuring soulful house, dance, hip-hop etc. Their 24/7 radio is at https://labr.online and their livestream is at @video
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
The Fediverse has its own Twitch-style livestreaming platform called OwnCast. You can follow OwnCast accounts from Mastodon, they will post in your timeline when they go live.
Lots more info at https://fedi.tips/owncast-live-streaming-and-chat-on-the-fediverse
Some nice #OwnCast accounts to follow:
MUSIC
@video - Eclectic DJ shows, house-adjacent, dance, hip-hop
@hamishtpb - Pop & rock music, requests, chat
@TIBtv - Music videos from the Fediverse
@SchenklTV - German-language radio shows
@strim - Experimental music collective
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Special shoutout to Librecast, a free open project designing a next generation internet using "multicast". This tech may help with privacy, human rights, decentralisation, energy efficiency and stopping spam.
Librecast has a main account at:
...and a video account at:
The project's accounts are run by Librecast's community manager @onepict@chaos.social who has a personal blog at @cobbles and is well worth following too.
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
By request, #Washington state USA accounts to follow:
@BATtheatre@social.seattle.wa.us - Non-profit theatre in Seattle
@outsidercomics@kind.social - Queer/Trans-owned co-op selling comics, art etc in Seattle
@WADeptHealth@universeodon.com - Official account of Washington State Department of Health
@index - Community activism newsletter in Seattle
@urbanistorg@mstdn.social - News on city planning, transportation, housing, politics in Seattle & Puget Sound
@norwescon@social.seattle.wa.us - Sci-fi & Fantasy convention in PNW
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
By request, accounts to follow from #Georgia USA:
@georgiamuseum@glammr.us - Georgia Museum of Art
@BeerGuysRadio@mastodon.beer - Craft beer podcast & radio
@thexylom@journa.host - News on science & communities
@saintfrancis@mastodon.myocci.social (main) & @ExpandingYourFaith@pod.myocci.social (podcast) & @live (livestream) - St Francis Parish & Outreach, Old Catholic church in Augusta
@MyOCCI@mastodon.myocci.social - Church denomination based in Georgia
@AtlantaFilmCriticsCircle@defcon.social - Film critics in Atlanta
@sandbox@kolektiva.social - Hackerspace in Atlanta
@ajcnews@flipboard.com - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
You can find thousands of recommended accounts to follow sorted into hundreds of topics on this account's website at:
To follow an account listed on the site, copy its Fediverse address and paste it into the search box in Mastodon. This will bring up its profile on your server, where you can click "follow".
Don't worry if a profile looks blank, this happens if you're the first person on your server to follow that account. Its posts will gradually start showing up.
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
🇪🇺 European news accounts to follow:
All are in their respective country's language(s) unless otherwise noted.
Some of these post very often. If they overwhelm your feed, try using Mastodon's Lists feature: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon
EUROPEAN GEOPOLITICS
@feed (blog) & @anderspuck@krigskunst.social (personal)
AUSTRIA
@derStandard@mastodon.derstandard.at
FRANCE
@mediapart@mediapart.social
@lemonde@mastodon.social
@Reporterre@mastodon.social
@socialter@mastodon.social
@splann@mamot.fr
@CourrierInter@flipboard.com
@Le_Parisien@flipboard.com
@OuestFrance@flipboard.com
@SudOuest@flipboard.com
@France3Regions@flipboard.com
@20Minutes@flipboard.com
@ConversationFR@flipboard.com
@Slatefr@flipboard.com
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Several US news publications have just been added to the Fediverse via Flipboard:
@curaffairs@flipboard.com - US news, politics & culture from progressive perspective
@TPM@flipboard.com - Progressive US political news site
@AfroLA@flipboard.com - Los Angeles independent news service, Black perspective
@RacketMN@flipboard.com - Independent news for Twin Cities area in Minnesota
@HellGate@flipboard.com - Worker-owned news service for New York
@SAExpressNews@flipboard.com - Local newspaper for San Antonio, Texas
@YaleClimate@flipboard.com - Climate crisis news including how to fight it
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Assorted #sports accounts to follow which didn't fit into previous categories:
SPORTS APPS
@shawn - Sending heartrate from Apple Watch to fitness equipment
BASKETBALL
@index@circlecityspin.com - Covering Indiana Pacers & Indiana Fever basketball
CLIMBING
@feed - Coverage of competitive sports climbing
@zaddie - High performance climbing blog by pro climbers
HOCKEY (FIELD HOCKEY)
@index@sticktogetherfh.com - Field hockey community for San Francisco Bay Area
ICE HOCKEY
@index@victorypress.org - Independent coverage of women's ice hockey
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Right... here is a thread of #Hackerspaces not listed in Monday's thread. Thank you to all suggestions, especially @tokudan@chaos.social who made a brilliant list in the replies, and @catsalad@infosec.exchange who had made a brilliant list of their own long before mine.
(There are even more hackerspaces in the previous thread at @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services)
🇦🇹 AUSTRIA
@realraum@chaos.social - Graz
@CCCSbg@chaos.social - Salzburg
@metalab@chaos.social - Vienna
🇧🇷 BRAZIL
@calangohc@bolha.us - Brasilia
@garoa@fosstodon.org - São Paulo
🇩🇰 DENMARK
@bornhack@mastodon.social - Hacker camp event in Funen
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Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
Recommending interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌐 You can see past recommendations organised into categories on my website at https:// fedi.directory I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https:// ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https:// liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @ FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mastodon.online on 11th June 2020
In case you missed it, I have a website as well which lists interesting Fediverse accounts to follow organised into topics:
To follow an account in the directory, copy-paste its address into your search box on Mastodon etc, this will bring up its profile where you can click "follow".
To find out more about an account in the directory, just click on its address and this will open its page on its home server.