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: https://phpc.social/@freekmurze
• Dries Vints: https://phpc.social/@driesvints
• Jess Archer: https://mas.to/@jessarcher
• Justin Jackson: https://mastodon.social/@mijustin
• Matt Stauffer: https://mastodon.social/@Mattstauffer
• Eric Barnes: https://mastodon.social/@ericlbarnes
• Laravel News: https://mastodon.social/@laravelnews
• Keith Damiani: https://phpc.social/@keithdamiani
• Frank De Jonge: https://mastodon.social/@frankdejonge
• Ian Landsman: https://mastodon.social/@ianlandsman
• Marian Pop: https://phpc.social/@mvpopuk
• Stefan Zweifel: https://mastodon.social/@stefanzweifel
• James Brooks: https://phpc.social/@james
• Joseph Silber: https://mastodon.social/@silber
• Stefan Bauer: https://phpc.social/@stefanbauer
• Ryan Chandler: https://phpc.ryangjchandler
• Claudio Dekker: https://mastodon.social/@claudiodekker
• Dan Harrin: https://phpc.social/@danharrin
• Zunana Kunckova: https://phpc.social/@zuzana_kunckova
• Stephan Rees-Carter: https://infosec.exchange/@valorin
• Rias Van der Veken: https://phpc.social/@rias
• Ruben Van Assche: https://mastodon.cloud/@rubenvanassche
• Christian Olear: https://phpc.social/@otsch
• Daryl Legion: https://phpc.social/@daryl1509
• Erika Heidi: https://fosstodon.org/@erikaheidi
• Chris Arter: https://phpc.social/@chrisarter
• Michele Hansen: https://bbiz.io/@mjwhansen
• Steve King: https://phpc.social/@juststeveking
• Nuno Maduro: https://phpc.social/@nunomaduro
• Ameliniya: https://phpc.social/ameliniya

General PHP

• Official PHP: https://fosstodon.org/@php
• Ben Ramsey: https://phpc.social/@ramsey
• Rob Allen: https://phpc.social/@akrabat
• Matthias Noback: https://mastodon.social/@matthiasnoback
• Doeke Norg: https://phpc.social/@doekenorg
• James Titcumb: https://phpc.social/@asgrim
• Benjamin Eberlei: https://phpc.social/@beberlei
• Derick Rethans: https://phpc.social/@derickr
• Nicolas Grekas: https://phpc.social/@nicolasgrekas
• Juliette Reinder Folmer: https://phpc.social/@jrf_nl
• Kevin Dunglas: https://mastodon.social/@dunglas
• Mark Baker: https://phpc.social/@MarkBaker
• Benjamin Cremer: https://phpc.social/@bcremer
• Andreas Heigl: https://phpc.social/@heiglandreas
• Sebastian Bergman: https://phpc.social/@sebastian
• Michelangelo van Dam: https://phpc.social/@dragonbe
• Jordi Boggiano: https://mastodon.social/@seldaek
• Anna Filina: https://phpc.social/@afilina
• Lorna Jane: https://indieweb.social/@lornajane
• Stefan Koopmanschap: https://phpc.social/@Skoop
• Chris Hartjes: https://phpc.social/@grmpyprogrammer

Please don't take it personal if you're not on these lists, it's impossible to add everyone. I will update the lists above now and then.

You can also:

• browse all people I follow on Mastodon
• browse people on Mastodon following me.
• find some good folks in the replies to this tweet
• find Statamic related peeps in this blog post

Feel free to drop your Mastodon handle in the comments below so the readers here can follow you too!