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Followers
31.5K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Oct 6latest
22
Avg engagement / post
8–24
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
45/100
Variable reach
Apr 2024
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 8 and 24 likes + reposts (median 12) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights Party, cent · 108 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
74.8 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3K×
Follows 25 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Laika’s new film, Wildwood, looks pretty incredible. It’s the longest stop-motion animation film ever made and is "heavily dependent on physical sets and puppets”, just like their previous films like Coraline & Kubo and the Two Strings. ht…
AI-generated images don’t have to look like AI-generated images…they can be any style you want. (It’s just going to get more and more difficult to tell…) https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that the water stored by China’s huge Three Gorges Dam is enough to increase the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds and move the North pole by 0.8 inches. (A 9.1 earthquake had a bigge…
Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels. Fiddly knobs, entire walls of nearly identical switches, dials, inscrutable gauges, soda machine interfaces, bump it and you might die buttons, Swinging Fingers (!!), and many more... https://kottk…
The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52 weeks as a laid-off creative worker. Based on The Oregon Trail. My first try: “You have died of burnout. Week 13. 51 applications, 1 ghosting.” https://labs.ficuscreative.com/job_trail
Blue Planet III https://kottke.org/26/10/blue-planet-iii
118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling. Including “put together a puzzle”, “go for a bike ride”, “hold a plank for as long as you can — even if it’s only a second”, and “make your own limoncello”. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/revi…
From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt keyboard, where the keys move and your hand stays still while typing. One of several unusual keyboards released by the company. You can even build your own. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
The trailer for Silent Friend. "In the botanical garden of a medieval German university, a gingko tree hundreds of years old watches its human neighbors through the slip-stream of time.” Like a movie version of The Hidden Life of Trees & T…
Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you don’t know”, “put the cart away”, “rest before you’re exhausted” (I often get this one wrong), and “walk home if you can”. https://www.quarter--mile.com/Things-That-Are-Good-to-Do
Watch one of Radiohead’s best live shows for free on YouTube: Bonnaroo 2006. Some people, including Lady Gaga, say this is their favorite show of all time, period. https://kottke.org/26/10/watch-one-of-radioheads-best-live-shows-bonnaroo-2…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
cliff.social
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✅ 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 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 22 views per post.
📤Posts about 74.8× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated53/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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