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Followers
671
Account age
4 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Dec 18latest
7
Avg engagement / post
6–8
Typical post (engagement)
1%
Engagement vs followers
78/100
Very consistent reach
May 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 6 and 8 likes + reposts (median 7) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: i'm looking for articles that talk about how the notion of "in p · 16 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.11 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6×
Follows 111 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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HCI colleagues:
Next semester I teach intro HCI/web design for sophomores. Because it's good practice and because it's robust to student use of LLMs, I want to increase the part of the grade earned via in-class/studio participation. Bu…
It's going to be ironic if forcing Google to divest Chrome ends up killing firefox. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/let-google-keep-chrome/680747/?
For those who've thought about it more, what exactly would the government's proposed antitrust remedy of Google "selling chrome" mean? Given the existence of the chromium open source version, Google could place chromium on android phones…
As part of my Google sabbatical I am in mountain view through Thursday and SF Friday, if anyone here wants to say hi.
I saw a post from someone who gave one of the large models a video of an extended interaction with a desktop UI, and the model explained every step of what was going on in the interaction. But now I can't find it. Help?
Working on a grant proposal with a word limit and wishing it were German so I could smush each sentence into a single word.
Photo post
After helping my students craft several abstracts for CHI, I do not believe that the current 150-word limit permits a detailed-enough description for fully-informed reviewer assignment. I advocate loosening the limit to, say, 300 words in…
To give some students a model to work off of, I'm looking for some papers that designed and deployed an app for meeting people (or socializing with them in some way).
Mastodon keeps telling me I'm rate limited. I'm not doing anything special. Why is this happening?
OK, I've made a separate page for people with positions they want to fill. Please check. https://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Projects/Postdocs/hiring.html
@andresmh
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After helping my students craft several abstracts for CHI, I do not believe that the current 150-word limit permits a detailed-enough description for fully-informed reviewer assignment. I advocate loosening the limit to, say, 300 words in…
To give some students a model to work off of, I'm looking for some papers that designed and deployed an app for meeting people (or socializing with them in some way).
Mastodon keeps telling me I'm rate limited. I'm not doing anything special. Why is this happening?
OK, I've made a separate page for people with positions they want to fill. Please check. https://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Projects/Postdocs/hiring.html
@andresmh
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hci.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
May 2022
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (4+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
EstimatedBrands David Karger's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.
About
Professor at MIT CSAIL/EECS, interested in building systems that help people manage their information the way they want. And dancing.
🔀 Audience overlap
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