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.
• graeber.social
  • The Fediverse instance for the David Graeber Institute. “Is there anything more important than creating our own independent and distributed social networks?”