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Account age

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3 views Butterflies on a bush, seen on a walk down a farm lane. #nature

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📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

17 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

2.2×

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Recent posts

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🔥 Top post So as someone has already posted about the rising costs of self hosting, here's my reasoning and why we moved to Netcup. The point being there is other hosting options, be aware and be switched on. good luck! https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/the-30-percent-letter/ #self… ★ 4

Butterflies on a bush, seen on a walk down a farm lane. #nature ★ 3 Anyone care to explain the vagaries of the #royalmail tracking app? “ we have your item and it’s on the way” last updated Wednesday when it arrived at Heathrow 🙈🙈🙈 probably the next will be ‘we’ve delivered your item “ tomorrow morning!! Sunday shoutout to all the #selfhosting #solo #DevOps #coders and #Sysadmin that keep the glue together that keeps everything running. Give yourself self some love and appreciation for what you do. ★ 3 So I saw a post about the large amount of flies this year in the UK, apparently their hunters the wasps had a bad spring? Any entomological based experts want to explain? #riseoftheflies #declineofthewasp #entomology #insects Rereading the #murderbot #diaries by @marthawells because we all need a bit of escapism!! ★ 1 There's something refreshing about deactivating your #Facebook #meta account :-) ★ 2 The real question isn't whether the spec is honest. It is. It's how many vendors will describe "MCP now has enterprise authentication" as if it covered everything. If your local stdio server is "secured by Okta," the protocol isn't what ne… ★ 1 Anthropic's fifth MCP spec release just gave networked AI tool servers a real way to verify who's calling them. OAuth 2.1, PKCE, the enterprise standard. It only applies to HTTP. The transport most MCP tooling actually runs on isn't mentio… Stdio never had this problem: when you spawn a process yourself, you already know what it is. The spec is honest about that scope, and it also quietly deprecated Roots, admitting outright it was never an access-control mechanism, just guid… 2/2: Buried in NIC.IM's own contract: any notice sent to your web agent counts as sent to you, whether they forward it or not. And a domain "is not an item of property and has no owner," just a registration entry that can lapse for reasons… ★ 1 1/2: Refuge Bistro & Bar in Douglas paid its domain renewal, had five years of use and a registered business name behind it, and still lost refuge.im to a stranger. NIC.IM ruled it couldn't get the domain back: prior use and payment don't …

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Home server

lighthouse.co.im

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On Mastodon since

Jul 2025

An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.

👁️Averages 2 views per post.

📤Posts about 17× per week.

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Estimated

38/100

Low Credibility score

68%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 68% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

💚 Brand affinity

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Brands al's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

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About

Running an independent consultancy focused on resilient, accountable digital systems and the informed use of cloud and AI. Keeping infrastructure and data understandable, auditable, and under client control.

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