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Ernie Smith

Ernie Smith

Mastodon @ernie@journa.host
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📣Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $12→ 🧵Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story — the fediverse rewards dept… $30→ 📦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product — I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $16→ 📌Pinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $36/mo→ 🔗Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $18/mo→ 🔁Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month — di… $24/mo→ 🏛️Instance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run — a sponsor line in the About/rules… $30/mo→ 🤝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances — a value swap between … Swap→ 🎬UGC HireBranded content for your own channels & ads from $50→ 🎙️Podcast guest spotInvite Ernie Smith onto your podcast (~45 min, remote) $25→

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Followers
121
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

Wow, Fedsearch already shut down. It is fascinating to see how longstanding community norms are winning out over the interests of a new, quickly growing audience.4 views Wow, Fedsearch already shut down. It is fascinating to see how longstanding community norms are winning out over the interests of a new, quickly growing audience.

📊 Post engagement

8
Avg engagement / post
6.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: This move towards Mastodon is so exciting and unusual that I sta · 39 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.33 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.4×
Follows 19 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post This move towards Mastodon is so exciting and unusual that I started a pop-up #newsletter about it. It’s called #HowToMastodon. I will publish at least three issues this week in place of my usual newsletter, MidRange. Check out the first one here: https://midrange.tedium.co/issu… ★ 39
Looks like writing.exchange is down this AM, so if I have any thoughts to spout off, I’ll share them here. Finding my usual server has been overtaken by lag and now it takes more than an hour to hear back from people on the regular. Maybe this is the sign that I need to roll my own My usual instance is getting congested, so 👋 ★ 2 Hey, just a programming note: This specific account is lightly used at this time in part because I’m in another community. I may move here eventually, but unlike a lot of my fellow journalists I’ve been on Mastodon basically the entire tim… ★ 2 I tried to explain Fediverse moderation dynamics to Twitter and it seems like it found an interested audience. Cool. https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1590186951168372736 Wow, Fedsearch already shut down. It is fascinating to see how longstanding community norms are winning out over the interests of a new, quickly growing audience. ★ 4 Have a good #electionnight, fellow journos. Don’t fill up on pizza. ★ 8 The second issue of my Mastodon pop-up newsletter, #HowToMastodon, is online, and discusses whether we might see post-scheduling tools, like Buffer, that support Mastodon. https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/mastodon-post-scheduling-conside… Be careful out there everyone, I just saw a certain form that Mastodon-based journalists are included on linked on a certain site that was in the news about a month or two ago—you know the one. ★ 2 Finally, someone created a place for journalists on here. ★ 2

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 8 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
80/100
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 (~6.6% 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

Editor of Tedium. Writer, designer. Guy who professionally complains a lot. (primary profile: @ernie)

🔀 Audience overlap

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