Rob Pegoraro✓

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Followers

1.5K

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: Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table Mornings haven't bee · 14 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

1 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.8×

Follows 398 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table Mornings haven't been quite the same around the house since Feb. 26--the last one that started with a print copy of the Washington Post landing somewhere near our front walk, making less of a thud than it once did, sometime before dawn… ★ 14

Fifteen years after leaving the Washington Post, I was sure that the paper's sometimes nightmarishly-bad IT couldn't hurt me anymore. And then I got the same letter in the mail that many other ex-Posties have received in recent days. http:… ★ 7 A little over six months ago, I asked for trouble by moving from the note-taking app I'd used for more than 15 years to a new one only days before CES. I didn't get that trouble, but the road from Evernote to Obsidian has still presented m… The president may want to make himself the face of the American franchise, even on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence's adoption. But nobody should feel obliged to indulge him in that wish or accept his resentful, rea… ★ 4 My shortest visit ever to Austin in this century also felt vanishingly little like my prior trips to my favorite part of Texas. Which says something about the Reality Distortion Field aspect of SXSW... http://robpegoraro.com/2026/06/18/off… ★ 1 I've gotten used to seeing people from other countries dunk on the U.S. for putting Trump back in the White House, but that feedback stung a little more coming from Brazilians who know what it's like to see a president try to overturn an e… ★ 1 It's one thing to say that Elon Musk is a jerk or that his Starship rocket is an overly ambitious concept with a disappointing record to date. It is another, far-less-clueful thing to say that SpaceX is a failing exercise in crony capitali… ★ 2 Bruce Springsteen's work has been a part of my life for 40-plus years, but I keep finding new angles to it--like Wednesday at Nats Park in D.C., when songs I've known for decades hit different because of the troubled state of the United St… ★ 1 "Shut up and take the customer's money" is sound CX advice that many transit agencies across the U.S. are finally following after years of requiring their own stored-value fare cards or mobile apps. http://robpegoraro.com/2026/05/22/my-gro… ★ 1 Did I need to take an hour and change out of a busy conference schedule to fly on a cramped and noisy airplane just to return to where we took off? No. Did I do that anyway? Yes. http://robpegoraro.com/2026/05/15/flights-to-nowhere-can-be-… ★ 1 Taxes are the price of civilization, and I don't mind paying them. I do, however, object to a levy that dings me a second time on something I already paid taxes on--and which requires me to maintain an extra spreadsheet every year. http://… Weekly output: tech for creators, Xfinity Mobile plans, how 1Password eyes AI, cheaper NextGen TV tuners This coming week will not be like the last six and change because my calendar has me sleeping in my own bed every night. That is an ex…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

journa.host

A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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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

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 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 1× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

52/100

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 (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

D.C.-based freelance technology journalist covering, and often vexed by, computers, gadgets, and other things that beep. May or may not be notable. He/him. Read: PCMag, Fast Company, etc. Write:

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