After creating an account on Mastodon, next question was how to find people to follow ? 🤔

While mastodon has existed for a while, only recently it started getting attention. So lot of people you follow are not on Mastodon. Yet.

I followed a couple of approaches.

First, I searched for topics I am interested in. I started with Emacs and Ruby. Found a few accounts to follow.

Then I literally searched find tweeple of mastodon. It turns out a lot of sites like Wired, PCMag, HowToGeek are writing about it. Most of these articles are from less than a month old 😄

After Elon Musk’s takeover, there has been a lot of discussion about leaving twitter.

TBH, I am not that active on twitter, and I am not sure if charging for blue tick affects me 😄

Yet, I have been burnt in past by having my data lost, because it was on someone else’s platform.

I do not consider my tweets that valuable, yet it seems I should have a back up, just in case.