Is there a master list of topics to choose from for my profile?

I don’t know about a ‘master list’ I just filled in my own interests profile.

What do you like, love, feel passionate about?

Hobbies, interests, your work, art, nature, etc.

I could go on forever but, limited mine to a handful or so of the things that I most enjoy. :-)

Welcome to Fluther.

Yes..welcome @Joybird ! :-)

Right now, we’re in a bit of a transitional phase between two iterations of the topics system, so it is fairly clunky. There is a master list, but it’s not readily available as far as I know.

So I’ll tell you three ways that I can think of to add topics.
1) Find a user who shares similar interests with you, and go to their “Topics” tab. Some users have more filled out topics pages than others, so your mileage may vary depending on who you pick.
2) Find a question that interests you, and add topics from it.
3) Go directly to the Topic page for the subject you’re interested in (http://www.fluther.com/topics/X, where X is the thing you like. e.g. computers). You will also be shown 3 related topics there, as well as questions using this topic, and members who have picked this topic for their own list.

There’s a pretty massive selection of topics, I would be surprised if any interests of yours wouldn’t be on there. Unless you’re very specific. Like, for some reason, Symphonic Metal doesn’t count as a topic, much to my dismay.

When you see topics that you like as tags under various questions, you can click on the topic and choose to add it to your list. You can also click on “people” to see other people following the topic, and the topics they’re following, and click those, too.

Thanks for that answer. It took some time for me to figure that out. It wasn’t obvious at first. I quess I must post a few questions in my area of interest in order to come up with a more refined list. For example I would like to add spiritual and metaphysical, archetypes, and ritual. But you were right, this site certainly is compatible to AO.