@beeman Welcome to the Fediverse. Great crowd at Fosstodon - you’ve chosen a good instance.

@kev

@beeman @kev

Welcome! I built this little tool to help find people:

https://search.noc.social/

Maybe can help find some good people around.

@beeman @kev

Hello, and welcome to the #fediverse!

I recommend you post an #introductions post filled with hashtags about your interest. That will help others find you, and let them know what you have in common.

There's also a project called trunk, which helps you fill your feed based on interests:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk

@beeman @kev You're on a good instance, be sure to check out your local and federated feeds. You might swing by mastodon.sdf.org for another tech-ish node in the Fediverse.

Have fun!

@beeman @kev Finding the right people to follow definitely takes some effort.

I recommend:
✅ initially open up every single person and their follows in a new tab
✅ check if you like their type of toots and and if you do then follow them
✅ then watch your Home timeline and block folks you don't enjoy and add more folks you do
✅ you can also search by hashtags for topics of your interest.

Welcome 🔥

@beeman @kev welcome aboard! Some good people to follow

@ChrisWere Linux gamer and tech enthusiast Foss advocate

@stux for cat pics and gifs

@selea Linux sysadmin all around good guy

@sir Floss advocate creator of #SourceHut (GitHub alternative) and #aerc (cli email client)

Many more great people on here. Too many to name if I did not name you please don't be offended.

@beeman @kev welcome!

@beeman @kev Yeah, read local feed (g l shortcut), find toots you like, check on authors of these toots, follow. Local on this instance is delightful!

@beeman Welcome aboard!

@kev

@beeman Welcome!

@beeman @kev
Who to follow depends on whether you think the email is broken or not 😄

@beeman welcome! Looking forward to the #introduction toot!

@beeman @kev Hi,
welcome here. You have chosen a great instance, there are many you might like to follow. But might I recommend @TheFuzzStone and @onepict
Both regularly post very good foss and privacy content.

@beeman check this list:

https://social.privacytools.io/about/more

@beeman Welcome! 😀👋🖖

@beeman Yay another new user!😁 🎉 Welcome To Mastodon🎉 . The people here in #mastodon are really nice and you are going to have so much fun talking to other people with the same interests as you and the best part is that its decentralized and open sourced! no more proprietary corporate titans controlling what you can and cant say on there platform! Here in Mastodon is a place where you can truly be you!