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Followers
58.3K
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$327 – $531 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 6latest
21
Avg engagement / post
14–28
Typical post (engagement)
0%
Engagement vs followers
76/100
Very consistent reach
Sep 2017
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 14 and 28 likes + reposts (median 24) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: What does a self-hosted Discord alternative look like today? htt · 44 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
16.9 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.6K×
Follows 36 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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The idea is to use Raspberry Pi as an always-on Hermes backend while using it from the computer(s).
https://itsfoss.com/hermes-desktop-remote-gateway/
The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week.
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-kernel-removal-feature/
Distrohopping is fun, but it comes with many learnings. 📚🤓
https://itsfoss.com/opinion/distrohopping-lesson/
openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-scale multi-agent collaboration.
https://itsfoss.com/news/openjiuwens-agent-swarm/
The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to the wider Rust project.
https://itsfoss.com/news/rust-code-repo-ai-policy/
An interview with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch, conducted at Open Source Summit India.
https://itsfoss.com/open-search-bianca-lewis/
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/
The release is powered by Debian 13.5 and Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported.
https://itsfoss.com/news/proxmox-virtual-environment-arm64-support/
Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code.
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-old-moxa-driver-removal/
Coding is not just for grownups. 😉
https://itsfoss.com/ways-kids-learn-code/
RSS feed is one way to escape the clutches of algorithms.
https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-32/
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
✅ 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
Sep 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 21 views per post.
📤Posts about 16.9× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
World's leading Linux and Open Source web portal.
https://itsfoss.com/
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