Recommended follow list for Ukraine war on Mastodon
Here are my recommendations for coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Only accounts active recently and you can easily import them from a file. They are split into two different lists by type.
Ukraine: OSINT & war updates
This list mostly has accounts posting quickly about daily events of the war and doing open source intelligence.
The import file relies on the List import feature recently added to Mastodon. I have noticed the list import results in a few accounts sometimes ending up in their separate list by the same name so you may have to fix that manually afterwards if this happens on your instance. If many people are on an older Mastodon version and want it I can also post a follows file that will work for those.
Import instructions:
Sign into your instance on the web
go to settings (Gear icon)
Choose Import and Export -> Import
For import type choose "Lists" (could also be "Translation missing: en.imports.types.lists" if there is an issue with the localization).
Select "merge" to only add to your current follows/lists so nothing you have gets deleted
Anyone following @kevinrothrock should be VERY careful. Meduza gets good scoops on #Russia, which is their focus, but Kevin has some odd takes on geopolitics which he likes to interject as commentary. He also has paper thin skin. I wrote a thread about him a while ago.
A 🧵 about how I got blocked by @kevinrothrock, managing editor of @meduza_en on not 1 but 2 social media platforms. This will be a familiar tale for other #fellas in the #Fediverse, but isn't just a story of a #NAFO#ShibaInu piling on someone for an unfortunate post.
Rather I'm sharing this as a lesson for other folks who are here to follow #news about #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. This isn't an attack on Kevin, even if I say some mean things about him, but about bias expertise & trust 1/n
