List of Popular Mastodon Accounts to Follow [Activity Pub testing]

[the skyfoxx]

For those testing Activity Pub, here is a popular list of users you can follow.

1. Access this sheet
2. Pick a name from column N (linked handle) e.g. @[email protected]
3. Remove the starting @ e.g. example above becomes [email protected]
4. Add it to this URL: https://community.nodebb.org/user/ e.g. https://community.nodebb.org/user/[email protected]
5. Click follow
6. Access followed content at: https://community.nodebb.org/world to get people you personally follow
7. Access https://community.nodebb.org/world/all to get people globally followed by people in this nodebb

[the skyfoxx]

More sources of accounts:

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

https://fediverse.info/explore/people

https://communitywiki.org/trunk

https://fedi.directory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413641

[julian]

This is an awesome list, thank you for sharing!

Looks like I'll have to update the search plugin to handle queries soon so people don't have to manipulate URLs

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx I've moved this topic to a new category I've created just for ActivityPub discussion

Topics in this new category will also federate.

Edit: Ah, unfortunately for this topic, though, as OP was not federated, replies to it seem to be automatically dropped by Mastodon. Hm.

[the skyfoxx]

@julian said in List of Popular Mastodon Accounts to Follow [Activity Pub testing]:

Edit: Ah, unfortunately for this topic, though, as OP was not federated, replies to it seem to be automatically dropped by Mastodon. Hm.

Understood, Julian - glad to be a tester! Is there something a user needs to do, to be federated? Also a bit new to the fediverse!

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx nope, as federation was enabled for this forum, all users are automatically federating their content out (at least for the categories I've manually enabled federation on).

That tells me I should probably do a write-up on how this all works currently, in NodeBB.