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19K
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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🎁 Free analysisfor Dave Troy :toad:
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Mar 26latest
23
Avg engagement / post
11–33
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
72/100
Consistent reach
Dec 2016
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 11 and 33 likes + reposts (median 22) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: 🛑 ICYMI: Our deep dive on "Dialog," which has been hyped as Pete · 55 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.84 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
22×
Follows 855 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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EXCLUSIVE: Every week, Russia's Security Council reports what the Kremlin thinks. And they're not just fighting for territory in Ukraine — they are fighting to remake the world order by winning over hearts and minds globally.
https://ameri…
Endlessly frustrating, ever-far from perfect, America will always be worth fighting for as long as there are those inspired by our founding ideals. 250 years is worth celebrating, but it’s the next 100 that will test our character and reso…
📻 NEW: A divided, atomized society is a soft target for information warfare. Historian Scott Reich joins me to make the case why national service could be how we rebuild trust and repair our frayed democracy. https://america2.news/podcast-…
Predictions are all about power.
I'm super excited to share this new episode of 'Dave Troy Presents' with Carissa Veliz about her new book, "Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI" — Have a lis…
Many of you have seen the viral clip wherein Steven Bartlett says that '3 glasses of wine' disabled him for three days, and his Whoop fitness sensor says so.
It's an ad. Here's the backstory of a complex influence campaign funded by major…
Importantly, Bartlett is an investor in AtaiBeckley, a psychedelics firm founded by Christian Angermayer who is also the lead investor in Bartlett's own media firm.
"The concern is that depression and other negative externalities of the em…
📄 NEW: “Diary of a CEO” is now the #2 podcast on Spotify, but our investigation reveals a web of undisclosed conflicts of interest, questionable health claims, conspiracy content, and interlocking investments backed by Peter Thiel and his …
📢 NEW SEASON: You may not be interested in crypto, but crypto is interested in you — your elections, your government, and your 401(k). Experts Molly White @molly0xfff & Tonantzin Carmona join me to explain, in Ep. 1 of Season 4 of “Dave Tr…
📄 EXCLUSIVE: With the White House set to launch a new website about "aliens," we dug into the backstory — with new, original reporting on the networks and motives behind the effort.
https://america2.news/trump-administration-set-to-launch-…
Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest.
https://america2.news/the-unraveling-of-donald-trump/
Been hard at work on tools that can be helpful for journalism and research. If you use Signal on a Mac desktop, check out SignalRAG, a new library for full text searching Signal messages w/RAG support + integrated into Claude Code.
https:/…
Predictions are all about power.
I'm super excited to share this new episode of 'Dave Troy Presents' with Carissa Veliz about her new book, "Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI" — Have a lis…
Many of you have seen the viral clip wherein Steven Bartlett says that '3 glasses of wine' disabled him for three days, and his Whoop fitness sensor says so.
It's an ad. Here's the backstory of a complex influence campaign funded by major…
Importantly, Bartlett is an investor in AtaiBeckley, a psychedelics firm founded by Christian Angermayer who is also the lead investor in Bartlett's own media firm.
"The concern is that depression and other negative externalities of the em…
📄 NEW: “Diary of a CEO” is now the #2 podcast on Spotify, but our investigation reveals a web of undisclosed conflicts of interest, questionable health claims, conspiracy content, and interlocking investments backed by Peter Thiel and his …
📢 NEW SEASON: You may not be interested in crypto, but crypto is interested in you — your elections, your government, and your 401(k). Experts Molly White @molly0xfff & Tonantzin Carmona join me to explain, in Ep. 1 of Season 4 of “Dave Tr…
📄 EXCLUSIVE: With the White House set to launch a new website about "aliens," we dug into the backstory — with new, original reporting on the networks and motives behind the effort.
https://america2.news/trump-administration-set-to-launch-…
Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest.
https://america2.news/the-unraveling-of-donald-trump/
Been hard at work on tools that can be helpful for journalism and research. If you use Signal on a Mac desktop, check out SignalRAG, a new library for full text searching Signal messages w/RAG support + integrated into Claude Code.
https:/…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
toad.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
Dec 2016
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2016 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 23 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
📍Based in United States.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Publisher and Editor, America 2.0. Entrepreneur, investor, tech pioneer. Columnist, Washington Spectator. Speaker. Cook. Pilot.
Host of https://toad.social — a trusted source of news, analysis, and thoughtful discussion, and a part of the federated social universe.
📍Baltimore/Washington/Europe
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