@JenMsft@mastodon.social - Popular Microsoft engineer. Active.
@neilhimself@mastodon.social - Neil Gaiman. Not very active, mostly do reposts. He said he'd answer on Mastodon though, if he can.
@shanselman@hachyderm.io - Scott Hanselman. Popular Microsoft dev. Active.
@adamconover@mastodon.social - Adam Conover. Occasionally posts a youtube link to his show. Not much more interaction.
@JeriLRyan@mastodon.world - Jeri Ryan, another Star Trek actor. Not active for 2 months now.
@gretathunberg@mastodon.nu Greta Thunberg. Not posted anything for a few months now.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Oh hey, I didn't know Gaiman was on mastodon.

[–] JenMsft@mastodon.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@emptyother @otter @georgetakei @neilhimself @shanselman @adamconover @JeriLRyan @gretathunberg I don't really think of myself as famous haha

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

A famous person has arrived!

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@loadingartist@mastodon.world and @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social - two webcomic artists with simplistic art styles I really like. Loading Artist has a Lemmy community, even: @loadingartist@lemmy.world.
@Christianselig@mastodon.social - developer of Apollo (the iOS app that got kill) and Pixel Pals.
@vwestlife@mastodon.social and @TechConnectify@mas.to - YouTubers focusing on old/retro tech who have fedi profiles. Word of warning, though: Tech Connections might chew you out if you're being an obnoxious FOSS zealot.
@metabrainz@mastodon.social - The MetaBrainz foundation, who you probably know for MusicBrainz.
@The_DoctorO@mas.to - Former WinAmp/Shoutcast dev, focusing on WACUP, which is essentially a continuation of pre-NFT WinAmp.
social.bbc - the BBC's official Mastodon/fediverse instance. They've given the fediverse a 6-month trial since around July I believe, and have already given up on Threads apparently.

[–] nikt@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I gave up trying to make Mastodon work. Two minutes of scrolling and I always end up closing it with an overwhelming feeling of cringe.

Mind you I could never get in to Twitter either. Maybe it’s just the format? It reinforces ego/personal brand over the value of the actual content.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don't like to see on your timeline. If you're scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Yep, a large portion of the content is exactly that. Mastodon is successfully replicating the Twitter experience.
I'm not a huge fan of the format either.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 11 months ago

I'm feeling that way with Lemmy tbh. Maybe I'm just not the Reddit type.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world

@MeidasTouch@mstdn.social

@gupton68@mastodon.online

@thurrott@twit.social

@badastro@mastodon.social

@RikerGoogling@botsin.space

@RollingStone@mstdn.social

@peertube@framapiaf.org

@mwadmin@mastodon.world

@loganbonner@bird.makeup

@JasonBulmahn@dice.camp

@APoD@botsin.space

@Reuters@press.coop

@slashdot@mastodon.cloud

@arstechnica@mastodon.social

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Off The Hook (@OffTheHook@hackers.town) and Emmanual Goldstein (@goldstein@mstdn.social )

[–] damon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

People have made some really helpful resources. Such as this list popular/famous accounts https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpUKkoT1MUn8_xM4usiERn-IdEuh0hXfBrwbbThwGiI/edit#gid=1111869705

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you!

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Brian Krebs.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange