National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada

Canada’s public film producer and distributor, founded in 1939. Its massive archive is available to view online, and it continues to produce documentaries, animations, web programmes and alternative dramas.

Fediverse address (in English):
@NFB@socel.net

Fediverse address (in French):
@onf@socel.net

FediMeteo Mississippi

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

Fediverse addresses:
@bay_st_louis__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@biloxi__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@brookhaven__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@clinton__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@columbus__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@corinth__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenville__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenwood__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@gulfport__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@hattiesburg__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@hernando__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@jackson__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@laurel__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@madison__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@mccomb__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@meridian__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@natchez__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@olive_branch__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@pascagoula__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@picayune__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@ridgeland__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@southaven__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@starkville__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@tupelo__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com
@vicksburg__mississippi@us.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Indiana

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

Fediverse addresses:
@anderson__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@bloomington__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@carmel__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@columbus__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@elkhart__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@evansville__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@fishers__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@fort_wayne__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@gary__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@goshen__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenwood__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@indianapolis__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@jeffersonville__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@kokomo__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@lafayette__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@marion__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@mishawaka__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@muncie__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@new_albany__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@noblesville__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@portage__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@richmond__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@south_bend__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@terre_haute__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com
@valparaiso__indiana@us.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Wisconsin

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

Fediverse addresses:
@appleton__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@beloit__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@brookfield__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@eau_claire__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@fond_du_lac__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@green_bay__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@greenfield__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@janesville__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@kenosha__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@la_crosse__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@madison__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@manitowoc__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@menomonee_falls__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@milwaukee__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@muskego__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@new_berlin__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@oshkosh__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@racine__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@sheboygan__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@stevens_point__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@waukesha__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@wausau__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@wauwatosa__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@west_allis__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com
@west_bend__wisconsin@us.fedimeteo.com

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

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

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 Nunavut

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

Fediverse addresses (in English & French):
@arctic_bay__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@arviat__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@baker_lake__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@cambridge_bay__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@cape_dorset__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@iqaluit__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@pond_inlet__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com
@rankin_inlet__nunavut@ca.fedimeteo.com

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

FediMeteo Portugal

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

Fediverse addresses (in Portuguese):
@aveiro@pt.fedimeteo.com
@beja@pt.fedimeteo.com
@braga@pt.fedimeteo.com
@braganca@pt.fedimeteo.com
@castelo_branco@pt.fedimeteo.com
@coimbra@pt.fedimeteo.com
@evora@pt.fedimeteo.com
@faro@pt.fedimeteo.com
@guarda@pt.fedimeteo.com
@leiria@pt.fedimeteo.com
@lisboa@pt.fedimeteo.com
@madeira@pt.fedimeteo.com
@ponta_delgada@pt.fedimeteo.com
@porto@pt.fedimeteo.com
@santarem@pt.fedimeteo.com
@setubal@pt.fedimeteo.com
@viana_do_castelo@pt.fedimeteo.com
@vila_real@pt.fedimeteo.com
@viseu@pt.fedimeteo.com

Heartland Urbanist / Matt Caffrey

Organiser and urbanist based in Ohio, USA, creating videos about city planning, housing reform and public transport improvement. Especially interested in the American Midwest and its return to urbanism.

Fediverse address (urban planning videos):
@heartlandurbanist@urbanists.video

Fediverse address (personal account):
@mattcaff@union.place

Adam S. Smith

Palaeontologist and curator at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall, in the UK. Especially interested in plesiosaurs and other Mesozoic marine reptiles. Author of the children’s books “The Plesiosaur’s Neck” and “The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers”, founder of the Dinosaur Toy Blog, Animal Toy Blog and Plesiosaur Directory sites.

Fediverse address (main):
@AdamStuartSmith@sauropods.win

Fediverse address (blog):
@dinotoyblog@dinotoyblog.com

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

LibreOffice

The most popular free open source office suite, it includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software etc. It’s very widely used by businesses, governments, organisations and individuals, and is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

Fediverse address:
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org

There are also user groups on the Fediverse:

Fediverse address (in Spanish):
@LibreOfficeEs@mastodon.social

Fediverse address (in French):
@LaMouetteODF@framapiaf.org

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