As mentioned in the getting started guide, your first steps into Mastodon can be a bit slower because of the lack of algorithmic recommendations. This page aims to give you a jump start into some interesting accounts recommended by fellow members of the Illegible Club.

If you’d like to add some recommendations, you can edit this file here and submit a pull request. If you don’t want to deal with git, you can also just send an email to Steve and he’ll add them for you.

Technology

• Rek and Devine of 100 Rabbits
  • Low-tech computing and games, sailing, and vegan cooking.
• Never Obsolete
  • images of old computers, operating systems, software and games (mostly 90s and 2000s)
• Sam Henri Gold
  • Designer working on the Mastodon mobile clients. Also posts excellent memes.
• Molly White
  • Tech/crypto researcher and critic. Author of citation needed and Web3 Is Going Just Great.
• blinry
  • Computer science, art, game design. Values autonomy, creativity and curiosity.
• Alex Schroeder
  • Maintainer of the EmacsWiki
• viznut
  • Author of the Permacomputing manifesto
• Paris Marx
  • Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast (which also occasionally features Molly White!)

Urban planning

• The War on Cars
  • A podcast about the fight against car culture.
• Not Just Bikes
  • A cranky old guy who has been places and seen things.
• Jon Worth
  • Brit who became German and is moving to France. Runs the #CrossBorderRail project and writes about railways and EU politics. Politically green, lives happily without a car.

Journalism/politics

• The Europeans Podcast
  • Award-winning podcasts about European politics and culture. New episodes every Thursday 🎉

Humor

Please send me some recommendations!

Science

• Prof. Sam Lawler
  • A professor of Astronomy living in rural Saskatchewan, farming goats and crusading against light pollution and space junk.

Others

• Cats of Yore
  • Cat photos. What more do you want?
• Loren
  • Nature and bird photography

Some interesting instances

• zirk.us
  • Poets, writers, academics
• chaos.social

  • German hacker content; seems to be loosely associated with the Chaos Computer Club.

    The admin of chaos.social is @ordnung ☯️

• jawns.club
  • An entire instance just for Philadelphians
• jorts.horse
  • ⚠️ NSFW ⚠️ UNSTOPPABLE SHITPOSTING MACHINE
• pagan.plus
  • Pagans, witches, and other heathen folk
• merveilles.town
  • Black, white, and teal. Technology, society, and art. Also sailboats.
• social.coop
  • Cooperatives and collectives
• infosec.exchange
  • An instance for people interested in information security
• LURK
  • Computational culture & experimental media. They also host other community infrastruture at https://lurk.org.
• typo.social
  • An instance dedicated to typography
• graeber.social
  • The Fediverse instance for the David Graeber Institute. “Is there anything more important than creating our own independent and distributed social networks?”

Starter Packs

Don’t see what you’re looking for here? How about some community-curated starter packs, for example, this one for mountain enthusiasts?