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Dr Pen
Followers
751
Account age
3 yrs
🎁 Free analysisfor Dr Pen

Known for

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Sep 21latest
3
Avg engagement / post
1–5
Typical post (engagement)
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
63/100
Consistent reach
Apr 2023
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 5 likes + reposts (median 2) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: Analog privilege is real, teacher bots have already arrived, and · 9 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
5.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 990 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post Analog privilege is real, teacher bots have already arrived, and the sick leave bot in Elysium or the court bot in Andor are coming, unless we do something about it very quickly. #academia #academicchatter #AISociety https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/stop-relyin… ★ 9
It was good to see recent stuff Ben W. shared about Turnitin and universities becoming aware they are in fact data farms for companies like Turnitin to train search models and now AI training data. I'm proud to say I have never used Turnit… ★ 1 I just bought Felicity, possibly the best local music player for Android. And I didn't use Playstore, I downloaded from F-Droid and paid via Gumroad. It was €8.56. #audio #music #fdroid #foss #gumroad #degoogle #android ★ 5 STEM PhDs written by AI. Why? Because they can. Because they cant be bothered. Because it destroys the knowledge base and any respect people still have for 'experts'. Because thats the whole point isnt it? #academia #academicchatter #AI #… ★ 2 Ive been away, having a break. Mostly digital detox, mainly avoiding hate posts, racism, UK patriots, Reform. Also any anti AI, pro AI, any AI, AI literacy, any literacy, academic entitlement, job blockers, any kind of pedagogical support … ★ 1 And here we are at the AI pink slime news manipulation stage. Absolutely no one is surprised at this. #ai #pinkslime #genai #aibias #academicchatter https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ai-chatbots-amplify-pac-funded-news ★ 1 I've received a paper to review about pedagogies of learning with *the Metaverse*. This shows several things: academics are gullible/opportunist for novel ideas; they don't keep up (metaverse was finally abandoned this year, but Futurism r… ★ 5 Good morning from London, Saturday 26th September 2026. I'm having a few days here to catch the last of London summer vibes before heading up to Scotland for a day or two. Photo: A view down the runway at Luqa Airport, Malta, taken last T… ★ 2 The grift is endless barefaced lying. Agentic AI is a lie. The army of low paid brown people in poor countries doing this work is the worst wizard behind the curtain BS you ever saw. It is built on theft and modern slavery, emphasises the … ★ 3 A bare knuckle thread about teachers and use of AI in their classes, really worth reading. It's mainly trainee teachers or young practitioners, and about schools, not universities. On FB Artists Against Gen AI group. #academia #academicch… Following up on my Analog Privilege post earlier, the term comes from Lévesque, and her very good paper, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4528278. Her 2024 blogpost on Tech Policy Press is here: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-futur… ★ 1 Infantilization is something I'm thinking about a lot in connection with the bland, petty, simplistic streams forced on users by mainstream socmed. Everyone gets something different, yet always the same. Even posts that seem complex are wr… ★ 2

🐘 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
Apr 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.3× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
52/100
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 (~0.4% 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.

💚 Brand affinity

Estimated

Brands Dr Pen's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

The Guardian

About

Tech society posts and shares from Dr Pen, Digital Media & Humanities academic based in Malta, from London. Late bloomer, a bit pithy. #UserExperience #UGC #DataSociety #DigitalSociety #SmartCities #smalltech #webdev #Fediverse #openeducation #knowledgecommons #opensocialweb World Citizen

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