MPS Göttingen (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

Research establishment in Göttingen, Germany which studies all the bodies that make up our solar system including the Sun, the planets, the asteroids etc. The Institute develops scientific instruments that are sent into space on ESA and NASA missions.

Fediverse address (in English & German):
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social

RMTransit

Public transport expert and enthusiast, runs the popular RMTransit video channel which has in-depth looks at all forms of transit and how they relate to urban planning. Covers trains, metros, buses, trams, high speed rail etc all around the world. (Author is based in Toronto, Canada.)

Fediverse address (main):
@reece@canadiancivil.com

Fediverse address (videos):
@reece@video.canadiancivil.com

Fediverse address (blog):
@reecemartintransit@reecemartin.ca

BookWyrm

The Fediverse’s alternative to Goodreads. You can keep track of your books, write reviews, follow other readers and more. Also, as it’s part of the Fediverse you can follow BookWyrm members from Mastodon etc.

Fediverse address:
@bookwyrm@tech.lgbt

FediMeteo France

French-language weather forecast accounts for cities in France. Follow your city to receive weather forecasts in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses (in French):
@aix_en_provence@fr.fedimeteo.com
@amiens@fr.fedimeteo.com
@angers@fr.fedimeteo.com
@argenteuil@fr.fedimeteo.com
@asnieres_sur_seine@fr.fedimeteo.com
@avignon@fr.fedimeteo.com
@besancon@fr.fedimeteo.com
@bordeaux@fr.fedimeteo.com
@boulogne_billancourt@fr.fedimeteo.com
@brest@fr.fedimeteo.com
@caen@fr.fedimeteo.com
@cayenne@fr.fedimeteo.com
@clermont_ferrand@fr.fedimeteo.com
@colombes@fr.fedimeteo.com
@dijon@fr.fedimeteo.com
@dunkerque@fr.fedimeteo.com
@fort_de_france@fr.fedimeteo.com
@grenoble@fr.fedimeteo.com
@le_havre@fr.fedimeteo.com
@le_mans@fr.fedimeteo.com
@lille@fr.fedimeteo.com
@limoges@fr.fedimeteo.com
@lyon@fr.fedimeteo.com
@marseille@fr.fedimeteo.com
@metz@fr.fedimeteo.com
@montpellier@fr.fedimeteo.com
@montreuil@fr.fedimeteo.com
@mulhouse@fr.fedimeteo.com
@nancy@fr.fedimeteo.com
@nanterre@fr.fedimeteo.com
@nantes@fr.fedimeteo.com
@nice@fr.fedimeteo.com
@nimes@fr.fedimeteo.com
@orleans@fr.fedimeteo.com
@paris@fr.fedimeteo.com
@perpignan@fr.fedimeteo.com
@pointe_a_pitre@fr.fedimeteo.com
@poitiers@fr.fedimeteo.com
@reims@fr.fedimeteo.com
@rennes@fr.fedimeteo.com
@roubaix@fr.fedimeteo.com
@rouen@fr.fedimeteo.com
@saint_denis@fr.fedimeteo.com
@saint_etienne@fr.fedimeteo.com
@saint_laurent_du_maroni@fr.fedimeteo.com
@saint_paul@fr.fedimeteo.com
@saint_pierre@fr.fedimeteo.com
@strasbourg@fr.fedimeteo.com
@toulon@fr.fedimeteo.com
@toulouse@fr.fedimeteo.com
@tours@fr.fedimeteo.com
@versailles@fr.fedimeteo.com
@villeurbanne@fr.fedimeteo.com

kottke.org

One of the oldest blogs on the internet, founded in 1998. Posts an eclectic mixture of news items, curiosities, art, technology and more. (Technically this is a bot account, but it’s also the blog’s official account.)

Fediverse address:
@kottke@mastodon.social

Eureka Jeans

Makes handmade jeans as a hobby (not for sale) and posts photos of the works in progress, the tools used to make them and info about how they are made. Many of the jeans are based on techniques from specific periods of history.

Fediverse address:
@eureka@pixelfed.social

FediMeteo Ontario

Weather forecast accounts for Ontario, Canada. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses (in English & French):
@barrie__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@brampton__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@cornwall__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@guelph__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@hamilton__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@kingston__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@kitchener__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@london__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@mississauga__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@north_bay__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@orillia__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@ottawa__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@peterborough__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@sault_ste_marie__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@st_catharines__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@sudbury__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@thunder_bay__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@timmins__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@toronto__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com
@windsor__ontario@ca.fedimeteo.com

CNRS Terre & Univers

Branch of the French National Centre for Scientific Research specifically looking at planetary science, astronomy, climate change, geology and related fields.

Fediverse address (in French):
@CNRS_INSU@social.numerique.gouv.fr

Sajan Rai

Artist who draws surreal illustrations with a distinctive style, mixing modern subjects, 1960s colours and an Asian aesthetic, giving it a busy modern feel.

Fediverse address:
@sajan@mastodon.art

FediMeteo Latvia

Weather accounts for cities in Latvia. Follow a city to see its weather forecasts in Latvian on your timeline.

Fediverse addresses (in Latvian):
@aizpute@lv.fedimeteo.com
@akniste@lv.fedimeteo.com
@aluksne@lv.fedimeteo.com
@ape@lv.fedimeteo.com
@baldone@lv.fedimeteo.com
@balozi@lv.fedimeteo.com
@bauska@lv.fedimeteo.com
@cesis@lv.fedimeteo.com
@cesvaine@lv.fedimeteo.com
@dagda@lv.fedimeteo.com
@daugavpils@lv.fedimeteo.com
@dobele@lv.fedimeteo.com
@grobina@lv.fedimeteo.com
@ikskile@lv.fedimeteo.com
@ilukste@lv.fedimeteo.com
@jekabpils@lv.fedimeteo.com
@jelgava@lv.fedimeteo.com
@jurmala@lv.fedimeteo.com
@karsava@lv.fedimeteo.com
@kegums@lv.fedimeteo.com
@kekava@lv.fedimeteo.com
@kraslava@lv.fedimeteo.com
@kuldiga@lv.fedimeteo.com
@liepaja@lv.fedimeteo.com
@ludza@lv.fedimeteo.com
@madona@lv.fedimeteo.com
@ogre@lv.fedimeteo.com
@olaine@lv.fedimeteo.com
@preili@lv.fedimeteo.com
@priekule@lv.fedimeteo.com
@rezekne@lv.fedimeteo.com
@riga@lv.fedimeteo.com
@rujiena@lv.fedimeteo.com
@sabile@lv.fedimeteo.com
@salaspils@lv.fedimeteo.com
@saldus@lv.fedimeteo.com
@sigulda@lv.fedimeteo.com
@skrunda@lv.fedimeteo.com
@smiltene@lv.fedimeteo.com
@stende@lv.fedimeteo.com
@subate@lv.fedimeteo.com
@talsi@lv.fedimeteo.com
@tukums@lv.fedimeteo.com
@valka@lv.fedimeteo.com
@valmiera@lv.fedimeteo.com
@vangazi@lv.fedimeteo.com
@varaklani@lv.fedimeteo.com
@ventspils@lv.fedimeteo.com
@viesite@lv.fedimeteo.com
@zilupe@lv.fedimeteo.com

Chest Bot

Interactive game run by a bot which lets you open loot chests which may contain treasure. The treasure can be saved in an account and spent on imaginary items. (NOTE: This is all just for fun, you don’t actually get any kind of loot! 😃)

Fediverse address (main):
@chest_bot@mastodon.social

Fediverse address (save your loot):
@chest_bot_atm@mastodon.social

Fediverse address (spend your loot):
@chest_bot_shop@mastodon.social

NextGen Cookbook

Cooking blog featuring recipes from around the world. The recipes are all easy to make and use fresh ingredients, avoiding processed ingredients. The blog’s aim is to encourage as many people as possible to cook at home.

Fediverse address:
@NextGenCookbook@mastodon.social

FediMeteo North Carolina

Weather forecast accounts for North Carolina, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@asheville__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@burlington__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@cary__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@chapel_hill__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@charlotte__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@concord__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@durham__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@fayetteville__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@gastonia__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@goldsboro__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@greensboro__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenville__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@hickory__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@high_point__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@jacksonville__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@monroe__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@morganton__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@new_bern__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@raleigh__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@rocky_mount__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@salisbury__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@southern_pines__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@wilmington__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@wilson__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@winston_salem__north_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com

Text Adventure / Xyzzy

Bot that posts randomly generated text adventure / interactive fiction scenarios. The scenarios are somewhat interactive, you can type commands as replies and the bot will reply with responses depending on what you do. Inspired by the classic text adventures of the 1980s. New scenarios appear every 4 hours.

Fediverse address:
@xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net

FediMeteo Iowa

Weather forecast accounts for Iowa, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@ames__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@ankeny__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@bettendorf__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@burlington__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@cedar_falls__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@cedar_rapids__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@clinton__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@council_bluffs__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@davenport__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@des_moines__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@dubuque__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@fort_dodge__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@grinnell__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@iowa_city__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@johnston__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@marshalltown__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@mason_city__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@muscatine__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@ottumwa__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@pella__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@sioux_city__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@storm_lake__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@urbandale__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@waterloo__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com
@west_des_moines__iowa@us.fedimeteo.com

Dr Gregory B. Sadler

Adjunct Professor at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in the USA. Perhaps best known for running a popular video channel about philosophy, which aims to make complex classical philosophical ideas more accessible.

Fediverse address:
@GregSadler@metalhead.club

Gancio

A free open source collaborative online calendar. It allows local communities to share a common calendar that anyone can post events to, even people without an account. (Posts are moderated to prevent spam though.) You can also interact with Gancio through the Fediverse, and it has RSS support for people who want to follow through feed readers.

Fediverse address:
@gancio@mastodon.cisti.org

Tuta (formerly Tutanota)

Independent privacy-friendly email and calendar provider which is ad-free and paid for entirely by their users’ subscriptions. There are free open source apps for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows. There’s also support for E2EE and 2FA wherever possible.

Fediverse address:
@Tutanota@mastodon.social

FediMeteo Manitoba

Weather forecast accounts for Manitoba, Canada. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses (in English & French):
@brandon__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@churchill__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@dauphin__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@flin_flon__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@gimli__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@morden__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@portage_la_prairie__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@selkirk__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@steinbach__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@the_pas__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@thompson__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@winkler__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com
@winnipeg__manitoba@ca.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo New Hampshire

Weather forecast accounts for New Hampshire, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses:
@berlin__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@claremont__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@concord__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@derry__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@dover__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@exeter__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@gilford__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@hanover__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@hollis__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@keene__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@laconia__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@lebanon__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@littleton__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@manchester__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@merrimack__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@nashua__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@newmarket__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@plymouth__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@portsmouth__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@raymond__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@rochester__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@salem__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@somersworth__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@windham__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com
@wolfeboro__new_hampshire@us.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Virginia

Weather forecast accounts for Virginia, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@alexandria__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@blacksburg__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@bristol__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@chesapeake__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@culpeper__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@danville__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@fredericksburg__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@hampton__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@harrisonburg__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@hopewell__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@leesburg__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@lynchburg__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@manassas__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@newport_news__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@norfolk__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@petersburg__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@portsmouth__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@radford__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@richmond__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@roanoke__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@staunton__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@suffolk__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@virginia_beach__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@waynesboro__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com
@winchester__virginia@us.fedimeteo.com

How To Do Anything

Bot that matches up random WikiHow images with random WikiHow article titles. This can produce rather baffling, intriguing or horrifying results… Posts at 2 hour intervals.

Fediverse address:
@wikihow@mastodon.social

FediMeteo Minnesota

Weather forecast accounts for Minnesota, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@apple_valley__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@bemidji__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@blaine__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@bloomington__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@brainerd__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@brooklyn_park__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@burnsville__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@coon_rapids__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@duluth__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@eagan__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@eden_prairie__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@edina__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@lakeville__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@mankato__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@maple_grove__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@minneapolis__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@minnetonka__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@moorhead__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@oakdale__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@plymouth__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@rochester__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@saint_paul__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@shakopee__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@st_cloud__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com
@woodbury__minnesota@us.fedimeteo.com

iFixit

Site about repairing electronics including phones, computers, consoles, home appliances, vehicles, tools, medical equipment etc. Features repair guides for stuff you’ve bought, online forums for discussing repairs, and reviews of how repairable new gadgets are.

Fediverse address:
@iFixit@mastodon.social