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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
1.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: As someone who is 100% an "AI skeptic": I'm starting to feel lik · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.6×
Follows 172 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Also, like: as far as I can tell, your best alternatives would be Vivaldi (still Blink) or Orion (Kagi, so you're supporting Yandex and thus Russia). Like it's losing all the way down
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116958760067232550
I fully support this, but I'm equally just getting tired of trying to keep track of how not to fund the fascists. It's getting exhausting
Deferdo is limping towards a release in my week off. It'll be a bit of a race to see what I can get done, but I've at least crossed the dogfooding threshold
I really prefer the Fediverse vibe, but whenever I start comparing PDSes and Appviews v. ActivityPub...
I really just wish that we could take a step back and either just collectively decide "whatever Mastodon's doing as of <today> is the s…
Okay! Let's get going with our first System 7 app in twenty or more years! How do I do this again?
> InitGraf(&thePort);
Go on
> InitFonts();
Yes.
> InitWindows();
More.
> InitMenus();
MORE!!!
> InitCursor();
BRING IT HOME BABY!!!
> TEInit…
I don't need a pickup, but if I did, I'd buy this one: https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/06/we-take-a-ride-in-slates-24950-electric-pickup/
Takes at least 23 clicks to quit Storj, by the way. I'd have an exact count, but after 23 I quit counting and started cussing
Really cool that Stroj is bumping their fees from (for me) $12 a month to $50 a month. Definitely recommend them to people whose wallet is melting due to the heat from their doubloons.
Anyone other than b2 do sane S3 pricing at my level? I…
Much as I love retrocomputing in theory, I don't actually use my older stuff on a weekly or even necessarily monthly basis.
…*except* my HP-49g+, which I swear still gets used *daily*. I don't know how much of this is "why should I change …
Any Windows peeps in my feed: I'm finally getting around to cleaning up what I'm currently thinking of titling "Windows Development for Unix Nerds". It's been awhile since I did Windows dev in anger, so I'm looking for some people who cou…
The degree to which Homebrew has completely broken my workflow the past two weeks with deprecating --clean with almost no warning and making `brew update` interactive is just awe inspiring. I'm not saying the changes are bad as such, but j…
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Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering 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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Engineer at Piq Enegy, former Principal/Staff at ngrok, The Knot Worldwide, Bakpax, and others. I like music and retrocomputing
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