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4.8K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Oct 4latest
6
Avg engagement / post
3–6
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
70/100
Consistent reach
Jan 2025
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 6 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: NetBSD has surpassed its funding goal: https://distrowatch.com/d · 16 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
8.7 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
30×
Follows 159 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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The Spetember newsletter for Haiku has been published: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20270
IPFire has a new release which addresses DNS issues: https://distrowatch.com/12978
The benefits of Mint's longer development cycle: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20269
Peppermint updates its PepVoid branch: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20268
DistroWatch Weekly reviews Abora OS, Butterbian, talks about what makes Linux systems break, Rocky launches OpenCourant, NetBSD surpasses its funding goals, a look behind the curtain at Chimera Linux: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?iss…
ZEPHIX 9 got a lot bigger: https://distrowatch.com/12976
A look behind the scenes at Chimera Linux: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20267
The signal-to-noise ratio is tipping the wrong way: https://www.patreon.com/distrowatch/posts/information-171512640
The team behind Rocky Linux has a new project: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20265
DistroWatch Weekly talks about fu11m00n, learning Linux through breaking Linux, the Dutch government creates a NixOS-based distro, GhostBSD working on its own desktop, openSUSE discusses a month of many security fixes: https://distrowatch.…
Besgnulinux has a new edition which uses Openbox: https://distrowatch.com/12974
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
cliff.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
Jan 2025
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 8.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated53/100
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 (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
DistroWatch is a news, learning, and reviews website dedicated to open source operating systems, such as Linux and the BSDs.
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