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Laravel and PHP developers to follow on Mastodon

Original – Nov 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

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!

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Comments #

Marcel Pociot

2 years ago

😘 https://mas.to/@marcelpociot

Ricardo Sawir

2 years ago

ricardosawir@phpc.social

Sascha Presnac

2 years ago

@paladin@mastodon.online

Miracle Chibuzo

2 years ago

emiracle@uiuxdev.social

Hemp

2 years ago

@hemp@laravel.gg

Liam Egan

1 year ago

updated Nov 22

I'm lazy - so I modified the list and created a csv file for quickly importing it. There were a few issues with domains that I fixed and I added the postings above. Paste the following into a text file and save it as something like "laravel_follow.csv", Delete anyone that you already follow and have Notify alerts on (otherwise it overwrites that setting - or change all of them to TRUE) , then import into "Following List" and make sure you have "merge" checked off and upload file - then you will be following everyone on the list.

---- start of csv ----,,, Account address,Show boosts,Notify on new posts,Languages freekmurze@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, driesvints@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, jessarcher@mas.to,TRUE,FALSE, mijustin@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, Mattstauffer@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, keithdamiani@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, frankdejonge@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, ianlandsman@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, mvpopuk@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, stefanzweifel@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, james@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, stefanbauer@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, ryangjchandler@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, claudiodekker@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, danharrin@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, zuzana_kunckova@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, valorin@infosec.exchange,TRUE,FALSE, rias@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, rubenvanassche@mastodon.cloud,TRUE,FALSE, otsch@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, daryl1509@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, erikaheidi@fosstodon.org,TRUE,FALSE, chrisarter@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, mjwhansen@bbiz.io,TRUE,FALSE, juststeveking@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, nunomaduro@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, ameliniya@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, php@fosstodon.org,TRUE,FALSE, ramsey@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, akrabat@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, matthiasnoback@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, doekenorg@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, asgrim@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, beberlei@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, derickr@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, nicolasgrekas@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, jrf_nl@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, dunglas@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, MarkBaker@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, bcremer@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, heiglandreas@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, sebastian@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, dragonbe@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, seldaek@mastodon.social,TRUE,FALSE, afilina@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, lornajane@indieweb.social,TRUE,FALSE, Skoop@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, grmpyprogrammer@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, marcelpociot@mas.to,TRUE,FALSE, ricardosawir@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, paladin@mastodon.online,TRUE,FALSE, emiracle@uiuxdev.social,TRUE,FALSE, hemp@laravel.gg,TRUE,FALSE, Synchro@phpc.social,TRUE,FALSE, ---- end of csv ----