Hi all!

What fediverse social media accounts do you recommend for accurate and timely information about the war in Ukraine (i.e. mastodon, not lemmy)?

I’ve been very grateful to find this federated community since moving away from Reddit.

I’ve also deleted my 13-year-old Twitter account. Now, I’m looking for alternative, reliable sources for information about the war that are open and not dependent on Twitter/X.

Some examples I’ve found (note: I have not followed all of these accounts for a long time, so use your judgment when evaluating them wrt reliability/accuracy):

Do you have others to recommend? Thanks!

  • PlasticQuality7519@reddthat.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can add @Nadinabbott@mstdn.social and @Tendar@newsie.social (Note that the last one is fairly pro-russian, but good to corroborate reports of progress)

  • Francisco@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I follow these:

    • Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum@journa.host

    • WarInTheFuture @WarInTheFuture@mstdn.social

    • ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social

    • Tendar @Tendar@newsie.social

    • OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical@mstdn.social

    • NOELREPORTS @noelreports@mstdn.social

    • MAKS 23 @MAKS23@mastodon.social

    • War Mapper @warmapper@mstdn.social

    • Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspuck@krigskunst.social

    • Mark Hertling @markhertling@mstdn.social

    • Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB@mastodon.world

    • Putin @putin@nafo.uk

    Will follow more after this thread! :)

    But, IMHO, the best way to find your own sources is to explore by hashtags , like:

    [https://mastodon.social/tags/ukraine]

    • canadaduane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, I do this sometimes, but there are also some… not very reliable posts in there on occasion.

  • Null User Object@programming.dev
    33·
    1 year ago

    FYI, Lemmy is just as much “fediverse” as Mastodon is. The term “fediverse” includes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Peertube, Pixelfed, and many more. So, your first paragraph kinda sounds like someone saying, “What Internet websites do you recommend (i.e. Wikipedia, not CNN)” Just thought you’d like to know.

    • canadaduane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s fair, I think we’re all trying to understand this new Fediverse thing. I understand that the underlying ActivityPub protocol is the same, but people tend to use these frontends quite differently. For example, I can’t downvote a Lemmy post in Elk (the software I use to follow other people). I also anticipate Lemmy posts to be more “community-oriented” in the way information is surfaced (like Reddit), whereas Mastodon is more focused on following a person or organization (like Twitter). There’s no wrong way to use the technology, but I do find the use cases helpful in organizing my expectations.