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Account age
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💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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33 views
2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable
Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-306/
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31 views
2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims
Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-308/
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31 views
2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot?
Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn't want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-300/
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29 views
2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool
Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-307/
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 8latest
27
Avg engagement / post
26–29
Typical post (engagement)
2.3%
Engagement vs followers
91/100
Very consistent reach
Apr 2025
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 26 and 29 likes + reposts (median 29) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: 2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable Why setting up commercial email and V · 33 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
291×
Follows 4 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable
Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-306/
#podcast #sy…
2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD
Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD r…
2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron
A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t ch…
2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims
Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.
https:/…
2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool
Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-307/
#po…
2.5 Admins 304: Wiring a House
Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overviews say.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-304/
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2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets
People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-a…
2.5 Admins 302: ClawPilot
Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their version of OpenClaw. Plus keeping up with the latest technology.
https://2.5adm…
2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting
It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for Chromium-based browsers, why peo…
2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot?
Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn't want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server…
2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation
People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation…
2.5 Admins 298: Windows Postdate
Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with t…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2025
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 27 views per post.
📤Posts about 1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated61/100
Fair
Credibility score
84%
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Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 84% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~2.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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Podcast from Allan Jude, Jim Salter, and Joe Ressington. Tech news and your sysadmin questions answered weekly.
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