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Followers
144
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Apr 13latest
6
Avg engagement / post
1–16
Typical post (engagement)
4.2%
Engagement vs followers
46/100
Variable reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 16 likes + reposts (median 1) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: Given all hype about #5G I wrote an explanation that (I hope) do · 17 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.07 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.8×
Follows 82 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Time for pretty - a picture my wife took on a 6:30 AM stroll down the street.
Dipping my toe back into Mastodon. Too bad there is fragmentation rather than synergy across social platforms. At one extreme, X has too much traffic to be useful, and at the other, I'd have to build a new community.
So I want to get a sen…
Photo post
Worth watching https://youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?si=PKZ6YkLn--Lj6mYR to better understand the appeal of the Trump/Musk facism.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/389672
I'm working on my presentation and will have more to say later. My challenge is to talk about infrastructure for connectivity without getting entangled with the legacy concept of telecommunications. …
One of my challenges is explaining why it is more important to create opportunity and resources (including education and basic research) rather than just provide solutions to problems.
This is especially account for those with a VC mindset…
I'm trying to add a "share with Mastodon" to my site but it takes a URL to a single server and then asks for an account on that server. How do I do a generalized version? Fediverse problem?
https://youtu.be/McM3CfDjGs0
And it's going to get worse with AI.
I had run across Future Unity, and it demonstrates the problem because announcements such as a Tesla Starlink phone sound plausible, even if the report is a total fake.
Sure…
I'm mulling the implications for GPT futures and what are the intrinsic limits. Where do humans fit into the process? There isn't a single endgame so ...
https://youtu.be/O8GUH0_htRM
I'm planning to be in the Bay Area next week for AMW (26 pm -- 28 am) and plan to be around after. Am interested in (re) connecting with people while there. It's been a while. Msg me to respond here.
https://go.shr.lc/40zEPHz
This is interesting at a number of levels. As much as I like to fault Twitter, perhaps the real issue is our dependency on accidental infrastructure which seems free - like television that is free as long as don't…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
c.im
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~4.2% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I'm best known for writing the first electronics spreadsheet (VisiCalc) with @Danb@qot
o.org. I also enabled home networking when at Microsoft.
Fellow of the IEEE, ACM and Computer History Museum.
I'm currently focusing on post-telecom policies, including the public packet infrastructure (https://rmf.vc/CIPPI).
For more details, look at https://Frankston.com
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