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Account age

9 yrs

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📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

27.3 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

10×

Follows 186 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117004024280410659 AI is just a tool that helps me be more productive why are you being so negative about it???? ★ 32

I need to pick my immutable vector implementation back up. time! need more of it! ★ 3 RE: https://toot.cat/@dthompson/116998962522520926 After much consideration, Grok and I have withdrawn GCD 009. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-07/msg00300.html ★ 4 I feel a bit sad about the fall of Ruby to fascists and slop. it was the first language I was paid a real engineer's salary to write and I did that for nearly a decade. Matz's "How Emacs Changed My Life" talk at Libreplanet 2012 is *the* r… ★ 15 RE: https://toot.cat/@dthompson/116998962522520926 a lot of really great discussion happening on this already! thank you to those who have weighed in so far. we got this! 💪 ★ 2 @spritely office hours are happening tomorrow. go goblin mode and stop by! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-7-29 #spritely ★ 3 Embracing the future — GCD 009: Allowing LLM-assisted and LLM-generated contributions https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14 #guix ★ 14 I don't know how I missed this 2022 fosdem talk given my interests but on the recommendation of @cwebber I watched "adventrues in dataflow" by @hisham_hm and it is one of the best talks I've ever seen! the demo at the end is incredible! ★ 22 I have an HM-2w. would be cool to capture some less extreme settings. ★ 2 tone3000 has a dimed out HM-2w model 🤘 https://www.tone3000.com/tones/boss-hm-2w-chainsaw-78122 ★ 3 working with contenteditable DOM elements is a dark art. ★ 10 does this mean genAI contributions are at the discretion of the reviewer? or does it mean they are not allowed at all because we can't attribute copyright to anyone? something else? ★ 3

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toot.cat

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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 2017

An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.

👁️Averages 9 views per post.

📤Posts about 27.3× per week.

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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 (~0.5% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (9+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Massachusetts trash. I mostly post about gardening, music, and free software development (not a techbro I swear please you gotta believe me) he/him

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