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
Yeah, I can’t decide if I am just old school, stuck in my Web 1.0 ways of forums and blogs or if I just haven’t given it a proper go. I really enjoyed Instagram though so perhaps it’s just the latter.
I think the problem with the Fediverse micro-blogging services is that they don’t have the numbers and it’s a bit more clunky - you have to bills your own feed, there’s no “handy” algorithm.
I signed up to Mastodon but just didn’t get it and I found Lemmy much easier to get into. It may be just me preferring a more forum-based approach bit others have highlighted how following communities is much easier than following individuals, as it gets you a steady stream of posts pretty quickly.
I have signed up with Calckey and am enjoying the features a lot more, as it integrates perfectly well with Mastodon I may settle there. Just need to populate my feeds…
Yeah, the All feed wasn’t helpful, so how am I supposed of discover stuff. It seems like its only good once your going, hut its a slog to get there.
I definitely click more with Lemmys style of things as well.
Maybe I should check out Calckey again, but whichever instance I tried before was all Japanese posts, so I only last 5 mins haha.
Calckey is a fork of Misskey, which is popular in Japan, but I haven’t seen any Japanese posts on Calckey.
Maybe it was Misskey I tried then haha.
Sounds it. Give Calckey a go - I haven’t got to grips with half it’s features but Antennas are really useful for following keywords (including hashtags).