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Followers
159
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 16latest
1
Avg engagement / post
1–1
Typical post (engagement)
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
100/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 1 likes + reposts (median 1) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: I don’t know what @TomsHardware has decided to do to prohibit pe · 1 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
9.2 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 198 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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My kids were just arguing over the lyrics to My Favorite Things. Specifically the line:
“X that fly with the moon on their wings”
One said X == Monkeys
Other said X == Donkeys
Both were very convinced of their perspective.
I think there should be required reciprocity if a business has a cancellation policy with costs. You want to charge me 50 if I am 15 min late? Sure same to you doctor.
Finally able to turn on the cat TV* this morning.Open windows and feed the crows.
I curse whoever decided that arch names like amd64 and arm64 could coexist.
It has now been over an hour to compile a caddy addon. I think I am going to have to find another way.
I succeeded in making my cloud instance cry (not responding due to overworked CPU). Go’s aggressive parallelization in compiling does not work with shared cpus.
The unexpected side effect of doing very non-standard configurations with your systems is that everyone things you are a developer. I don’t have time to be a beta-tester today but I am rather surprised that providers are using their ad-tec…
Parenting Win: Aligned my annoyance with cats damaging our carpet with eldest love of crafting. They are very excited to fix our carpet. #parentingwin
My cats are not happy that the windows aren’t open for their amusement.
The smoke is thick in the DC area today, MUCH worse than yesterday, stay healthy.
Lotus blossoms were beautiful today at the Kettleworth Aquatic Gardens in DC. Aside from the entitled people threatening me is was a great morning. Even the bugs weren’t so bad.
Lotus blossoms were beautiful today at the Kettleworth Aquatic Gardens in DC. Aside from the entitled people threatening me is was a great morning. Even the bugs weren’t so bad.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
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 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 9.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
A recovering academic interested in #infosec, #cybersecurity, #linux, #unix, #pinball, #hamradio, #caturday, and in general learning new things.
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