With the talks about blacking out Reddit to protest the API changes, what are terminally online people to do? Here’s my proposal of some profiles to follow on Fedi:

• Timnit Gebru
• Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus
• Emily M. Bender
• Molly White
• Our very senpai David Gerard
• Acausally edited in: https://jorts.horse/@AcausalRobotGod

Adjacent:

• AnarchoNinaWrites (from time to time rails about Musk wanting to replace us with AI and escape to Mars, so I guess she counts)
• Rebecca Watson, yes that one
• mhoye

There’s also Lemmy and kbin, two possible Reddit alternatives, but I don’t know of any communities there. I’m personally on szmer.info, but I guess a Polish instance isn’t what people here need 🙃

Some quick guide for people who are new to the “Twitter Clone” side of Fedi:

• There’s basically two sides of Fedi, one where the ‘nice’ people are, and another with fash/terfs/etc.
• Going through John JoinMastodon should get you on the former.
• ‘nice’ was in quotes, because if you aren’t a cishet white dude you can still step into shit. A story by Mekka Okereke what happened when he made an account on mastodon (dot) cloud, which isn’t eager to block cesspools like poast etc.
• If you liked Twitter drama, you can now have the same, and also between admins!
• Not all servers run Mastodon proper. There are forks, there are completely different softwares.
• Pleroma which used to be ran by some nasty people, not sure if it’s still true. It was forked into Akkoma which was christened ‘t-slur software’ by Alex Gleason, so it must be doing something right.
• Misskey which is a flashy Japanese weirdness, forked into FoundKey and CalcKey.
• GoToSocial, lightweight but so currently in alpha and missing basic features like signup, so only suitable for screwing around and making single-user instances.
• The above doesn’t matter all that much, they all can talk to each other. Though if you want cat ears over your profile pic, consider Misskey or clones. Regrettably, cat ears don’t seem to federate to other software.