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Followers
9.2K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$52 – $84 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for Paul Cantrell
📊 Post engagement
125
Avg engagement / post
1.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: If you doubted that the “oh noes our agent escaped containment” · 422 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
44.6 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
12×
Follows 769 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Has anyone been playing around with macOS 27 (“Golden Gate”) Public Beta 2? How is it for quirks, hitches, stability?
I accidentally upgraded* to macOS 26 last night, everything is bubbly and terrible and I hate it, and I'm willing to cons…
If these incidents were truly as represented, they'd be colossal embarrassments. The AI vendors would be trying to bury them, not trumpet them.
Both these replies point at a common thread: these news stories represent a grotesque failure of either the vendors or their products.
If the agents did in fact “go rogue” and cause damage, even in the hands of the people who should be the…
OMG yes, this, 1000x this. Doesn’t even require an outside force; we do it to ourselves at the slightest excuse.
https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/117010616473398350
To my mind, one of the psychological pillars of good engineering of any kind is letting go of that egocentric mode, accepting (deeply, philosophically, rationally, and emotionally) that •everything• is tradeoffs, and embracing correctness …
When someone says “There are some downsides to the choice you made,” even if that’s followed “but you are probably still making the best choice,” as often as not people experience it not as the frustrating reality of life but as an ego thr…
RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/117003290007900358
One of the conclusions I’ve come to from my years of software freelancing is that humans hate tradeoffs.
I don’t just mean that we hate deciding between options when none is clearly the …
Ironically, it turns out Worse on Purpose is worse on purpose
EDIT: “Worse on Purpose” is an unreliable source with a suspect author. Do not use.
(see replies)
RE: https://opinuendo.com/@matthew/117005584248025015
Yikes. Ugly scene.
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116997766777309382
This is a Hail Mary effort; hard forks like this are hard to sustain and rarely succeed. But it’s reached the point where we have to try.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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
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 125 views per post.
📤Posts about 44.6× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated95/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Composer, pianist, programmer, professor, rabble rouser, redhead
Computer Science at https://www.macalester.edu/mscs/
(Student projects: https://devgarden.macalester.edu)
Musical troublemaker https://innig.net/music/
Cheerfully grizzled software industry veteran
Artistic Director of the now-defunct https://newruckus.org, which may once rise again?
The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.
— Carolyn Forché
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