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Ryan Bates

Mastodon @rbates@ruby.social

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Followers

2.3K

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.3%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: I love how Ruby handles keyword arguments. I miss them in just a · 17 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.38 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

56×

Follows 42 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I love how Ruby handles keyword arguments. I miss them in just about every other language. ★ 17

Replicube is an awesome little puzzle game. It’s like Picross 3D meets shader programming. The puzzles are a fun challenge and the interface is charming. Worth checking out! https://www.walaber.com/replicube ★ 2 90% of the Ruby code I’ve written the past few years has been class methods without shared state. The code has clearer dependencies and is easier to read, test and maintain. OOP has its place, but I don’t think it fits the majority of web-… ★ 9 I do agree with this thought behind the post: external dependencies should be avoided when not absolutely necessary. ★ 1 I personally would like to see the default Rails install slimmed down and more things moved into official gems. ★ 12 That said, this is coming from 37 Signals so it makes sense vanilla Rails is plenty for them. if it wasn’t then they would add it to Rails to fit their needs. ★ 6 We all have different apps with different requirements. If vanilla Rails is plenty then I think vanilla Rails does too much. https://dev.37signals.com/a-vanilla-rails-stack-is-plenty/ ★ 7 What’s everyone using these days to cross-post between Bluesky/Mastodon/X? ★ 1 Ruby’s metaprogramming is like a forbidden fruit. Always there tempting me, and I almost always regret using it. ★ 11 After working with Roc and Gleam for a while, full type inference is amazing. Now I want a procedural language with full type inference. I wonder why more functional languages don't support local mutability within the scope of a function. It is convenient and still keeps the function pure. Git tip: What if you want to amend an earlier commit? I have this function in my dotfiles. gfix() { git commit --fixup $1 && git rebase -i --autosquash $1^ } Stage changes and run `gfix <commit-sha>`. This will open interactive rebase in… ★ 13

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

ruby.social

Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.

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 8 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.4× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

72/100

Good Credibility score

94%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.