How to find people to follow on Mastodon

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.

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Understanding Mastodon

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.

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