The Garden of Memory

Blog by the historian Sean Munge writing on a very eclectic selection of historical and pop culture topics. There are also in-depth history articles and learning materials for paid subscribers.

Fediverse address (blog):
@sean@gardenofmemory.net

De Witte Haas, Schiermonnikoog

De Witte Haas (“The White Hare”) is a photographer and guide on Schiermonnikoog, a small Dutch island in the North Sea which is also a national park of the Netherlands. They post wonderful photos and news about the plants and wildlife on the island.

Fediverse address (in Dutch):
@dewittehaas@mastodon.social

Smashing Security

“Smashing Security” is an award winning podcast which is in theory about infosec, but in reality it’s a very entertaining (and occasionally slightly rude) round-up of all sorts of computing and tangential non-computing news. Features lots of back-and-forth banter between hosts Graham Cluely, Carole Theriault and their special guest.

Fediverse address:
@smashingsecurity@mastodon.green

KDE

Worldwide free open source software community which creates all kinds of popular useful projects such as the Plasma desktop, Kdenlive, Krita and lots more.

Fediverse address (main):
@kde@floss.social

Fediverse address (videos):
@kde_community@tube.kockatoo.org

Fediverse address (conference videos):
@kde@conf.tube

Fediverse address (Spanish language community):
@kde_espana@floss.social

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

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

Joey Deruy

Self-taught, exhibited artist with a distinctive abstract style using colourful shapes on pale backgrounds, sometimes with figurative and other non-abstract elements mixed in. Deruy was partly raised in Kenya, and there are African influences on his art too.

Fediverse address:
@JoeyDeruy@mastodon.art

FediMeteo South Carolina

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

Fediverse addresses:
@aiken__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@anderson__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@beaufort__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@charleston__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@columbia__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@conway__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@easley__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@florence__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@goose_creek__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenville__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenwood__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@greer__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@hilton_head_island__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@lexington__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@mauldin__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@mount_pleasant__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@myrtle_beach__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@newberry__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@north_augusta__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@north_charleston__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@orangeburg__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@rock_hill__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@spartanburg__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@summerville__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com
@sumter__south_carolina@us.fedimeteo.com

Hare

A new programming language currently under development. The developers describe it as: “a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust” and “well-suited to low-level, high performance tasks.” Apparently it fits onto one 3.5 inch disk! 💾

Fediverse address:
@hare@fosstodon.org

Matthias Pfefferle

Creator of the “ActivityPub for WordPress” plug-in which turns WordPress blogs into Fediverse servers. When it’s active, people will be able to follow your WordPress account from Mastodon etc, and when you post a new blog entry it will appear as a post on the Fediverse.

Fediverse address (in English and German)
@pfefferle@mastodon.social

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

FediMeteo Montana

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

Fediverse addresses:
@anaconda__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@big_sky__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@billings__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@bozeman__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@butte__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@columbia_falls__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@cut_bank__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@dillon__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@glendive__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@great_falls__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@hardin__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@havre__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@helena__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@kalispell__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@laurel__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@lewistown__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@libby__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@livingston__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@miles_city__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@missoula__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@polson__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@shelby__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@sidney__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@whitefish__montana@us.fedimeteo.com
@wolf_point__montana@us.fedimeteo.com

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

Widescreen Gaming Forum / WSGF

Online community testing PC games on various different monitor setups and noting how they perform. Founded in 2003, currently with over 2400 games in their testing database.

Fediverse address:
@WSGF@mastodon.social

FediMeteo Scotland

Weather forecast accounts for cities in Scotland, using data from Open-Meteo.

Fediverse addresses (organised by city):
@aberdeen@uk.fedimeteo.com
@dundee@uk.fedimeteo.com
@dunfermline@uk.fedimeteo.com
@edinburgh@uk.fedimeteo.com
@fort_william@uk.fedimeteo.com
@glasgow@uk.fedimeteo.com
@inverness@uk.fedimeteo.com
@kirkwall@uk.fedimeteo.com
@lamlash@uk.fedimeteo.com
@lerwick@uk.fedimeteo.com
@mallaig@uk.fedimeteo.com
@oban@uk.fedimeteo.com
@perth@uk.fedimeteo.com
@port_ellen@uk.fedimeteo.com
@portree@uk.fedimeteo.com
@stirling@uk.fedimeteo.com
@stornoway@uk.fedimeteo.com
@tarbert@uk.fedimeteo.com
@thurso@uk.fedimeteo.com
@ullapool@uk.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Tennessee

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

Fediverse addresses:
@bartlett__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@blaine__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@bristol__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@chattanooga__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@clarksville__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@cleveland__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@columbia__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@cookeville__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@dickson__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@franklin__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@gallatin__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@germantown__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@hendersonville__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@jackson__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@johnson_city__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@knoxville__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@la_vergne__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@lebanon__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@memphis__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@morristown__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@mount_juliet__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@murfreesboro__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@nashville__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@oak_ridge__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@sevierville__tennessee@us.fedimeteo.com
@smyrna__tennessee@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