I’m hoping to find more general, less nerdy content or infuriating American news. 99% of what I see and is recommended to me is just that.
I know Technology Connections has an account. I’m thinking people roughly along those lines in terms of popularity/scale but I’m open to any topic from gardening to gaming.
Oh are you kidding there’s SO MUCH Warhammer on Mastodon. Check out the local feed of warhammer.social. There’s also wargamers.social but obviously a bit broader in focus.
Even if you just follow #Warhammer there’s a decent amount but then you can add in other tags like #Warhammer40k, #GamesWorkshop, #AgeOfSigmar, #Necromunda, #BloodBowl, #WarHamFam, #WarhammerCommunity, #Wargaming, #MiniaturePainting and damn we have got ourselves a feed going!
I’m sure I read a post on one of the communities here recently that was showing off their entry to a Mastodon-based painting competition as well.
As far as things like gaming go obviously that’s a pretty wide topic and it’s gonna depend what you’re looking for. #VideoGames or #Gaming for example gets you a lot of news headlines. Specific game tags e.g #Starfield will get you a mixture of news, streamers, screenshots, memes and of course people aggressively complaining. Or maybe you’re interested in seeing what sorts of games small indie creators are making in which case something like #DevLog might be of interest.
I know your original post is asking for “notable content creators” which it seems like you’re using to mean “big accounts”. But really if it’s interesting content on a topic you enjoy, the size of the account posting it doesn’t matter.
And naturally since you said you’re open to other “quality content” I do also recommend #Knitting because we’re surprisingly active and also cool af.
Maybe I’m on the wrong instance or something. I already follow most of those hashtags, but only tend to get like one post a day per hashtag. I also found most of the content was spam and low quality posts, which was part of why I was trying to find people to follow; I was hoping to find sources for more consistently good content.
It could actually be an instance thing, because depending on what’s actually federated with you you’ll get different results.
One thing I like to do for my main tags is do an occasional trawl through the results on that site I linked, and compare it to search results from my server. Anyone not showing up is either on an instance that mine has blocked (in which case booo) or they’re just not federated yet because nobody on my server follows them. In which case I follow them!
This can be a big advantage of themed instances because if you’re on, say, warhammer.social then chances are the people on there with you are already following lots of people posting about it elsewhere and so you’ll get lots of search results. But if you’re on, idk, an instance about birdwatching then it’s less likely to already have a lot of Warhammer content federated and waiting.
One of my accounts is on a tiny creative server so I’m good for knitting content but struggle a bit with the weekly NFL live-tooting for obvious reasons!
And yeah I do agree following hashtags isn’t the be all end all (especially with the lack of language filter), but it’s a good way to start at least finding those people you want to specifically follow 🙂