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Whom are you following on Mastodon? [1]

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Date: 2022-12-30  

Good Follows

One of the rough areas of Mastodon is discovering whom to follow. For me, it is mainly by finding references in other posts I am already following. I assume that as Mastodon matures, the process will become easier, but for now, it is a somewhat tedious, organic process. Here are the accounts I am following so far:

ThomHartmann@ThomHartmann@mstdn.social

MichelangeloSignorile@msignorile@mstdn.social

BrandiBuchman@Brandi_Buchman@mstdn.social

PaulKrugman@pkrugman@mastodon.online

MarkSumner@Devilstower@mstdn.social

TheIntercept@theintercept@journa.host

TheConversation U.S.@TheConversationUS@newsie.social

KurtEichenwald @kurteichenwald@mastodon.cloud

EmilyHopkins@emilyhopkins@newsie.social

CharlesOrnstein@charlesornstein@newsie.social

JeffTiedrich@jefftiedrich@mastodon.social

RexChapman@rexchapman@sfba.social

KathyGriffin@kathygriffin@mstdn.social

ProPublica@ProPublica@newsie.social

MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch@mstdn.social

MarcElias@marcelias@mas.to

RobertReich@rbreich@masto.ai

God @godpod

GeorgeTakei @georgetakei

If you have found other good follows, please post them in the comments.

Instance growth

I started doing some casual tracking of growth on various instances. As of Dec 30, here are the instances with over 30K accounts, excluding those that allow spam and don’t require warnings for porn:

Accounts Statuses mastodon.social 920823 47082571 mstdn.jp 303688 63217731 mas.to 148113 2769573 mastodon.lol 76515 1358074 universeodon.com 68825 750570 mastodonapp.uk 67753 831559 techhub.social 67687 249670 masto.ai 64167 551150 mastodon.uno 63505 786354 c.im 61765 881823 fosstodon.org 52403 1577055 mstdn.party 47885 653740 sfba.social 36758 485962 ohai.social 36557 344583 home.social 36123 348101 troet.cafe 35842 1425104 mastodon.nl 34029 445879 m.cmx.im 35152 3366902 mindly.social 33592 398738 mstdn.ca 32183 451858

The number of accounts on these servers is up 5% in less than one week, and that is despite 2 of the biggest ones (mastodon.social and mastodon.lol) not accepting any new accounts.

Limitations

Mark Elias mentioned these shortcomings with Mastodon today:

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