Tusky

Free open source Mastodon app for Android phones, available through F-Droid and Google Play. Can also be used by other Fediverse platforms that use the Mastodon API such as PixelFed and GoToSocial. One of the very earliest apps for Mastodon, first released in 2017.

Fediverse address:
@Tusky@mastodon.social

FediMeteo Florida

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

Fediverse addresses:
@bonita_springs__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@cape_coral__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@clearwater__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@coral_springs__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@daytona_beach__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@deltona__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@fort_lauderdale__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@gainesville__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@hialeah__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@hollywood__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@jacksonville__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@lakeland__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@miami__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@miramar__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@naples__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@ocala__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@orlando__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@palm_bay__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@panama_city__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@pembroke_pines__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@pensacola__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@port_st_lucie__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@st_petersburg__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@tallahassee__florida@us.fedimeteo.com
@tampa__florida@us.fedimeteo.com

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

Postcard Past – Present Photo

History site taking old postcards of particular places in cities and putting them beside photos of the same locations today, with the site’s articles discussing what has changed socially and economically in that area (or not) since the postcard was made.

Fediverse address (blog):
@index@postcard-past.com

FediMeteo Georgia (US State)

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

Fediverse addresses:
@albany__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@alpharetta__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@athens__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@atlanta__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@augusta__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@brunswick__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@carrollton__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@columbus__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@dalton__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@douglasville__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@gainesville__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@hinesville__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@johns_creek__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@macon__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@marietta__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@newnan__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@peachtree_city__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@rome__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@roswell__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@sandy_springs__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@savannah__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@smyrna__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@statesboro__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@valdosta__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com
@warner_robins__georgia@us.fedimeteo.com

Canongate Books

Award-winning independent publisher founded in 1973. Its published authors are highly eclectic including Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh, Barack Obama, Scarlett Thomas, Matt Haig, Alasdair Gray, The Mighty Boosh, Miranda July, Simon’s Cat and many more. They also run their own Fediverse server at bookish.community

Fediverse address:
@canongatebooks@bookish.community

The Prototype Fund

Funding initiative of the German government promoting development of open software. Anyone can apply for funding who lives in Germany, is self-employed, pays German taxes and publishes their source code on some sort of source forge. (You don’t need German citizenship.)

Fediverse address (in German):
@PrototypeFund@mastodon.social

EnoraVFX

Professional concept artist and illustrator (clients include Riot Games, 20th Century Fox, Magic: The Gathering). Fan of open source software such as Blender, Godot, Krita. Interested in Eco-punk themes, working with scientists tackling the climate crisis.

Fediverse address:
@Enora@mastodon.art

FediMeteo Poland

Weather forecast accounts for cities in Poland. Follow your city to receive its weather forecasts in Polish in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses (in Polish):
@bialystok@pl.fedimeteo.com
@bydgoszcz@pl.fedimeteo.com
@czestochowa@pl.fedimeteo.com
@elblag@pl.fedimeteo.com
@gdansk@pl.fedimeteo.com
@gliwice@pl.fedimeteo.com
@gorzow@pl.fedimeteo.com
@gorzow_wielkopolski@pl.fedimeteo.com
@grudziadz@pl.fedimeteo.com
@jastrzebie_zdroj@pl.fedimeteo.com
@kalisz@pl.fedimeteo.com
@katowice@pl.fedimeteo.com
@kielce@pl.fedimeteo.com
@krakow@pl.fedimeteo.com
@legnica@pl.fedimeteo.com
@lodz@pl.fedimeteo.com
@lublin@pl.fedimeteo.com
@olsztyn@pl.fedimeteo.com
@opole@pl.fedimeteo.com
@plock@pl.fedimeteo.com
@poznan@pl.fedimeteo.com
@radom@pl.fedimeteo.com
@rzeszow@pl.fedimeteo.com
@szczecin@pl.fedimeteo.com
@tarnow@pl.fedimeteo.com
@torun@pl.fedimeteo.com
@walbrzych@pl.fedimeteo.com
@warszawa@pl.fedimeteo.com
@wroclaw@pl.fedimeteo.com
@zielona_gora@pl.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

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

Snikket

XMPP-based free open federated messenger project. It aims to make XMPP into a more viable alternative to Whatsapp etc by providing consistency in design and terminology, while still maintaining compatibility with other XMPP apps and servers. (It’s a similar plan to how Mastodon made ActivityPub more mainstream while still being compatible with other ActivityPub server types.)

Fediverse address:
@snikket_im@fosstodon.org

Dr Johnny Blanchard / RE:Enthused

Retro computing expert and author. Creates videos on vintage computers and consoles, including both highly obscure and well known machines. Provides the historical context of the devices, and explores the technical details of the hardware itself.

Fediverse address (main):
@jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online

Fediverse address (videos):
@johnny_blanchard@makertube.net

Fediverse address (photos):
@jonn_blanchard@metapixl.com