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9.6K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$54 – $88 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Oct 11latest
57
Avg engagement / post
6–35
Typical post (engagement)
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
8/100
Spiky reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 6 and 35 likes + reposts (median 21) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: If you haven't been paying attention to this story, it's truly w · 438 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
18 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.2×
Follows 4.4K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Current Affairs has enshrined tough restrictions on publishing using generative AI into its union contract. It's bet is that it will publish better journalism that way. #AI https://werd.io/current-affairs-says-its-banning-ai/
Too often, 1:1s can be reactive, unstructured spaces - or simple status reports that don't give the relationship time to breathe. This advice changes that dynamic. #Business https://werd.io/treat-your-1-1-relationships-with-intention/
I guess I’ve trained Threads to think I like posts about people who have just lost beloved family, because my algorithm is at least 50% that. I’m 5+ years out from my own loss but grief is clearly driving some of my behaviors. Creepy that …
"For six months of her pregnancy, Maria was held in an immigrant camp in Texas, where conditions made it impossible for her to care for herself or her baby." https://19thnews.org/2026/10/pregnant-woman-ice-detention-camp-nightmare/
46% of Argentine adults avoid the news. These 23 year olds vibe coded a solution that's turned into the most popular news app in the country. #Media https://werd.io/argentinas-top-news-app-was-made-by-two-23-year-olds-using-ai/
Honestly? Seems ace. Can't wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZgB5D74ivc
This is the kind of dystopian artifact that will be in the history books as soon as we've made our way out of this godforsaken era.
The AP is not wrong; it's a real issue, and I think it's right to publish this. But what a hall of mirrors …
I've been blogging since 1998 - and a while back, I was very privileged to be interviewed about my journey writing on the web for 28 years. It went up today: https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/23
48% of young people who use AI trust it more than the humans in their lives. #AI https://werd.io/young-people-trust-ai-more-than-the-people-in-their-lives/
"I want to go back to the network run for the benefit of the man directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, minimum, because that's where the good AI posts are," say nation's oblivious bloggers
We rise together or we fall together. Every human. All of us.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
werd.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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 57 views per post.
📤Posts about 18× 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
John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford. Previously: @ProPublica, @19thnews, Matter, Elgg.
Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io.
More about me: https://werd.io/about/
Tags: #indieweb #opensource #journalism #writing #fiction #blogs #blogging #startups #openweb #web #fediverse #socialweb #ethics #product #writingcommunity #philadelphia #sanfrancisco
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