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2.1K
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 20latest
27
Avg engagement / post
3–6
Typical post (engagement)
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
0/100
Spiky reach
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 6 likes + reposts (median 3) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: A reminder that, in the last week, the #UK police had the resou · 286 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.5 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1×
Follows 2.2K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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By the way, if you are convinced by the recent "Delay AI b/c It's Too Orangey For Crows" press releases, then we should talk. I have quite the collection of real estate opportunities for you.
Very rich people get weird little fads & cliques. Always have. In the run-up to the '08 crash a lot of rich, purportedly smart, people got very into crystals and homeopathy. Today it's bunkers & TESCREAL fairytales. It doesn't mean that th…
The only RSI which is happening right now is Repetitive Strain Injury from all the stenographers transcribing the proclamations from the Sun Kings no matter how absurd. #ai #software #development
I am quite sure that the Venerable Antoni Gaudí is extremely happy with the number of souvenir shops that bear his name whose major trade is T-shirts depicting, for example, a heavily tattooed Snow White snorting a fat line of Charlie. #Ba…
Today is the 198th birthday of Leo #Tolstoy - a giant in Russian literature
Tolstoy was born an aristocrat but as well as writing works such as "War and Peace" & "Anna Karenina", he became an ardent Pacifist and one of the primary thinker…
"Breaking news" is just a slop-feed now, part 2334556
In case you're wondering how it's going on BSky: Their lead programmer is having a huge hissy fit about people who are critical of LLM tooling for coding. The replies contain a white guy replying to a Black programmer to dunk on Java for n…
RE: https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aqnjduv9ahszw164
Well, at most once.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kittylyst/116798910909840948
Well well well.
Turns out you can just do stuff. No-paywall coverage: https://thenextweb.com/news/spain-data-centre-rules-renewables-grid
As a gift in honour of my father - I have arranged for a new, free (in both senses) electronic edition of Arthur Ransome's classic #sailing novel "Racundra's First Cruise" to be published: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-ransome/r…
"Breaking news" is just a slop-feed now, part 2334556
In case you're wondering how it's going on BSky: Their lead programmer is having a huge hissy fit about people who are critical of LLM tooling for coding. The replies contain a white guy replying to a Black programmer to dunk on Java for n…
RE: https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aqnjduv9ahszw164
Well, at most once.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kittylyst/116798910909840948
Well well well.
Turns out you can just do stuff. No-paywall coverage: https://thenextweb.com/news/spain-data-centre-rules-renewables-grid
As a gift in honour of my father - I have arranged for a new, free (in both senses) electronic edition of Arthur Ransome's classic #sailing novel "Racundra's First Cruise" to be published: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-ransome/r…
🐘 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
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 27 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.5× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated38/100
Low
Credibility score
56%
Low
Real audience
High
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 56% real, active audience · High fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Follows 2.2K accounts — more than its own followers — a common follow-for-follow / bot pattern.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Queer, cisgender author / educator / software engineer mainly known for #architecture / #performance / #observability / #Java / #JVM
Much more likely to post pictures of #cats and rant about society, #antifascism, food and #queer stuff than tech, though. Cornishman in Barcelona.
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