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📊 Post engagement
379
Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without expla · 772 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.65 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.1K×
Follows 55 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Why are Trump and Vance ruining the Fourth of July? Because it is hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/america-250-july-4-idea/687749/?gift=…
Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ukraine-war-momentum-shift/687444/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK339Ii2SkHlPWX0PobpYV_fQ
Democracy, Kleptocracy and more....with Steven Bartlett
https://youtu.be/kwEtOyaFhCA?si=iyv6nkSWJzAwbGOJ
Four years ago, President Vladimir Putin offered Moscow and its business elite a de facto deal: Support my war in Ukraine, and in exchange you won’t have to think about it. In the past week, that deal was broken.
https://www.theatlantic.co…
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/04/ins…
How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule …
Illiberalism is not Inevitable
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/illiberalism-not-inevitable/686778/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32zuGE3vqLJtJTyIvvK-8_M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"
Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a military attack fro…
Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukrai…
Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they promised would be preserved
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/trump-state-department-ending-aid-seven-african-countries/686106/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4C…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 379 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Staff writer at The Atlantic. Author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE and TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY
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