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Followers
372
Account age
7 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for James :ruby:
📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Can’t believe Mocha is 20 years old today! 🎂 https://mocha.james · 11 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
4.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 483 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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> Each Sunday and public holiday from 7am until 2pm certain main streets of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, and other cities are temporarily blocked off to cars allowing runners, skaters, and bicyclists to workout in a more comfortable environment…
> You’d see massive glacier calvings, and you’d just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you’d be like … ‘can you not put two and two together?’
https://theconversation.com/i-cant-work-in-the-farce-of-climate-change-crui…
Sad to be missing the “Z80 at 50!” event at the Centre of Computing History this weekend.
Writing games in Z80 assembly language on Sinclair machines was a formative part of my teenage years…
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/77032/…
Unfollowing #RubyConf because of all the generative AI fanboys.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jamcoop/116919343060569060
#mirlo #subvert #ampwall #bandcamp #bandwagon #faircamp #cooperative #cooperation
In case anyone else is having problems viewing their annual statement from Nest Pensions in Preview.app on MacOS, I managed to fix mine with Ghostscript:
gs \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-dNOPAUSE \
-dBATCH \
-o repaired.pdf \
broken.pdf…
@hlame @james Have you seen this? Apparently it’s a work-in-progress and they welcome contributions…
https://guides.rubyevents.org/
@rubycentral You appear to have sent out emails for a bunch of old newsletters about 30 mins ago.
#rubycentral #ruby
Apart from the humiliation of Farage, I'm also looking forward to the return of Ceefax!
#voteBinface #ceefax
It's so depressing watching Trello gradually morphing into Jira... 😔
Also very annoying they keep changing the keyboard shortcuts! 😡
#atlassian #trello #jira
> I just need you to "find" me 11,780 goals...
#fifa #corruption #WorldCup2026
@rubycentral You appear to have sent out emails for a bunch of old newsletters about 30 mins ago.
#rubycentral #ruby
Apart from the humiliation of Farage, I'm also looking forward to the return of Ceefax!
#voteBinface #ceefax
It's so depressing watching Trello gradually morphing into Jira... 😔
Also very annoying they keep changing the keyboard shortcuts! 😡
#atlassian #trello #jira
> I just need you to "find" me 11,780 goals...
#fifa #corruption #WorldCup2026
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.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
Aug 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 7 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 4.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (7+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Member of Go Free Range software coop; Ruby developer; author of Mocha Ruby library.
🔀 Audience overlap
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