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Brits to follow on Mastodon, Calckey, etc (mastodonapp.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Emperor to c/fediverseatlas

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As we are on Feddit.uk and the Twitter equivalents can be tricky until you build your free, let's have some Brits to follow (or those living here in Britland). Quite a few seem to have gone to mastodonapp.uk.

Stephen Fry - started with enthusiasm but has tailed off
Alice Roberts - similar recent lack of posts
Neil Gaiman - not much posting but a lot of boosting
Brian Cox - 1 post 8 months ago
Charles Stross - as the above aren't very active, author Charles Stross has gone full Fediverse
Roger Langridge - cartoonist

OK, that started with enthusiasm and petered out quickly. So here are some other less famous people doing British stuff (heavily skewed to my interests):

Anton Bitel - film reviewer
Rob McCallum - artist (comics, storyboards)
The Teletext Archaeologist - yes, it does what it says on the tin
Nearly Knowledgeable - Shropshire folklore

So have at it.

edit: fixing the links

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[–] noodle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not alone. I'm not sure why anyone would want to endlessly scroll through so many posts that say nothing of value.

With Mastodon, it is either a torrent of uninteresting posts or a trickle of uninteresting posts with no effective way to seek out interesting discussions or people.

Even if you only follow people who you expect to post quality content, they still will posts things you don't care about most of the time. This ends up at the top of your feed, which is annoying.

Twitter at least recommends topics that are trending, so you could jump in on things you may find interesting. But what do I know? I deleted my Twitter account years ago. If there's anything worth seeing on it, I'm sure someone will post it to Reddit/here.

[–] tkc 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, people boosting (?) stuff that I'm not interested in definitely clogged my feed, and most boost more then they post.

And using the all feed was just chock full of non-english posts, which is just so very rarely something I can engage in, I.e. someone who posts cool pics that I dont need context to.

I do winder if I'm just jot using it for the right thing. Ive hears microblogging is good for news.