I love Twitter and I will be there until the ship goes down. Unfortunately, there are some strong signals that it may go away for a while or even permanently. I surely hope it doesn’t come to that.
Through years of curating people to follow, I’ve built a very nice, positive group of people I admire and get inspired by. If Twitter goes down, I want to stay following these people (in a non-creepy way, rest assured). That’s why I’ve already created a Mastadon account, and am looking around for the positive Laravel and PHP vibes there.
Justin Jackson wrote a very nice blog post on how to get started with Mastodon.
If you join a Mastodon server (I’m on PHP Social, but there are many others), then you can get a head start by following these Laravel and PHP people. You can follow them by searching for them, no matter on which Mastodon server they or you are.
And then follow them:
Laravel
Me: [email protected]
Dries Vints: [email protected]
Jess Archer: [email protected]
Justin Jackson: [email protected]
Matt Stauffer: [email protected]
Keith Damiani: [email protected]
Frank De Jonge: [email protected]
Ian Landsman: [email protected]
Marian Pop: [email protected]
Stefan Zweifel: [email protected]
Claudio Dekker: [email protected]
Zunana Kunckova: [email protected]
Stephan Rees-Carter: [email protected]
Rias Van der Veken: [email protected]
Ruben Van Assche: [email protected]
Doeke Norg: [email protected]
Christian Olear: [email protected]
Daryl Legion: [email protected]
Chris Arter: [email protected]
General PHP
Official PHP: [email protected]
Ben Ramsey: [email protected] (he started the phpc.social server 👏)
Rob Allen: [email protected]
Matthias Noback: [email protected]
James Titcumb: [email protected]
Beberlei: [email protected]
Derick Rethans: [email protected]
Nicolas Grekas: [email protected]
Kevin Dunglas: [email protected]
Mark Baker: [email protected]
Benjamin Cremer: [email protected]
I’ll update this list now and then. You can also browse all people I follow on Mastodon and people on Mastodon following me. I’m pretty sure there are more nice positive people to follow on those lists. You’ll also find some good folks in the replies to this tweet.
Feel free to drop your Mastodon handle in the comments below, and I’ll add it to the list above.