What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?

If there's interest, we could do more of these posts every few months

Yes, please! 🤩
Good idea. Maybe we can also do active hashtags to follow.

The most active famous person I've found on Mastodon is @georgetakei@universeodon.com .

Other famous people:

@JenMsft@mastodon.social - Popular Microsoft engineer. Active.
@neilhimself@mastodon.social - Neil Gaiman. Not very active, mostly do reposts. He said he'd answer on Mastodon though, if he can.
@shanselman@hachyderm.io - Scott Hanselman. Popular Microsoft dev. Active.
@adamconover@mastodon.social - Adam Conover. Occasionally posts a youtube link to his show. Not much more interaction.
@JeriLRyan@mastodon.world - Jeri Ryan, another Star Trek actor. Not active for 2 months now.
@gretathunberg@mastodon.nu Greta Thunberg. Not posted anything for a few months now.

Oh hey, I didn't know Gaiman was on mastodon.
@emptyother @otter @georgetakei @neilhimself @shanselman @adamconover @JeriLRyan @gretathunberg I don't really think of myself as famous haha
- A famous person has arrived!

@loadingartist@mastodon.world and @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social - two webcomic artists with simplistic art styles I really like. Loading Artist has a Lemmy community, even: @loadingartist@lemmy.world.
@Christianselig@mastodon.social - developer of Apollo (the iOS app that got kill) and Pixel Pals.
@vwestlife@mastodon.social and @TechConnectify@mas.to - YouTubers focusing on old/retro tech who have fedi profiles. Word of warning, though: Tech Connections might chew you out if you're being an obnoxious FOSS zealot.
@metabrainz@mastodon.social - The MetaBrainz foundation, who you probably know for MusicBrainz.
@The_DoctorO@mas.to - Former WinAmp/Shoutcast dev, focusing on WACUP, which is essentially a continuation of pre-NFT WinAmp.
social.bbc - the BBC's official Mastodon/fediverse instance. They've given the fediverse a 6-month trial since around July I believe, and have already given up on Threads apparently.

I gave up trying to make Mastodon work. Two minutes of scrolling and I always end up closing it with an overwhelming feeling of cringe.

Mind you I could never get in to Twitter either. Maybe it’s just the format? It reinforces ego/personal brand over the value of the actual content.

You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don't like to see on your timeline. If you're scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.
- How are you supposed to find people to follow then?
- Yes, I got a lot out of reddit, and I miss it sometimes. Lemmy doesn’t seem to have enough of the right people yet to generate enough high quality content to compare to reddit.
  Y-combinator’s HN has been sort of filling that void for me though.
Yep, a large portion of the content is exactly that. Mastodon is successfully replicating the Twitter experience.
I'm not a huge fan of the format either.
I'm feeling that way with Lemmy tbh. Maybe I'm just not the Reddit type.

@ZekuZelalem is investigating journalist with focus on countries of African Horn

@rachelstrohm Rachel Strohm interesting links on news of the African continent

@thecontinent Pan-African weekly newspaper

@maximedwards OSINT journalist

@MinCzifra political analyst with focus on post-soviet countries and regions of Russia

@anneapplebaum Anne Applebaum

@Bellingcat Bellingcat

@tonimichel Researcher of domestic politics of post-soviet countries

@Odrachewych Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, communism in global/transnational frameworks

@GreatDismal William Gibson

@annaleen Sci-fi author and journalist for New Scentist, The Atlantic etc

@nsousanis Nick Sousanis, an author of Unflattening, academic work in comic form

@stoicmike Artist and epigramist

@ComicBookProgressive Comics collectioner, which shares gems and wonders of collection he have

@fill ukrainian cartoon artist

@NancyComicsSDF Classic Nancy comics

@TadeuszBonawentura Thanks for the mention. But I have to admit I went down the rabbit hole of kbin.social and don't understand what it is at all
- Hi! Appreciate your works! So, talking about this place. Welcome to another corner of fediverse. #Kbin and #Lemmy are federated forum platforms which work like Reddit but on principles similar to #Mastodon or #Pixelfed. That's why we can talk together here by being on different platforms. Magic of federation!

@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world

@MeidasTouch@mstdn.social

@gupton68@mastodon.online

@thurrott@twit.social

@badastro@mastodon.social

@RikerGoogling@botsin.space

@RollingStone@mstdn.social

@peertube@framapiaf.org

@mwadmin@mastodon.world

@loganbonner@bird.makeup

@JasonBulmahn@dice.camp

@APoD@botsin.space

@Reuters@press.coop

@slashdot@mastodon.cloud

@arstechnica@mastodon.social

Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.