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Followers
88
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jan 30latest
5
Avg engagement / post
1–4
Typical post (engagement)
5.7%
Engagement vs followers
47/100
Variable reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 4 likes + reposts (median 4) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: FederalVerse, is there a way that I, a mere GentleHacker who doe · 19 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.14 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.7×
Follows 135 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Would you care to learn something absurd I recently discovered?
Of course you would.
Should you be composing a missive in Microsoft #word on your Mac, and should that missive contain an East Asian language such as Japanese, you might wish …
I find myself yearning for the days when a Social Network was a place of connection and a way to check in on my friends and peers.
Thus, I have decided that 2026 is an ideal span in which to build an ersatz replacement, cobbled together fr…
"I am so overcome with misery that the apocalypse is of no import" is only compelling if the misery is either self-inflicted or remediated.
Having just concluded Alex Foster's debut novel "Circular Motion", I am left with Thoughts, Feelings, and Disappointment.
While reading the text (a process which, encouraged by the creativity and excellent prose, I undertook with much hast…
I *greatly* enjoy Holiday Gift Guides, as without exception all of them promise
"The greatest assemblage of gifts and tokens of appreciation for such men as have looked beyond the veil and pierced the heavens with eldritch insight!"
And th…
Well. That certainly is something you can spend your time attempting to build.
https://x.com/miyuselene/status/1982517846124192011?s=20
I have noticed that fervent proponents of the Intellectual Difference Engines are inordinately fond of claiming it generates "(deep) Insights".
Whether it does or not is immaterial to the fact that the phrase seems inexorably linked to the…
Sometimes it is fun to engage in proposals that Some Erstwhile Personage should engage in some course of action or entertaining folly.
However, if you are assured that said hypothetical would be of actual concrete benefit, I implore you:
…
Well, today is one of those profitable days where one gets to block someone on the Fediverse! A marvellously rare occurance.
The hell of writing #resumes is that you legitimately claim to be an auto-didact and the machines (and often people) reading your resume will have no idea what you mean.
It is never reasonable to make sweeping generalisations about the motivations of others.
However.
I would posit that one of the glorious things about the OSS community is that people contribute so that others may use their work, in part be…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
tech.lgbt
A LGBTQ+ tech server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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
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 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~5.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Dylan Lacey. Ruby for Love, TypeScript for Money. I think Dev is part of the Humanities.
Toots are up to 95% Opinion and Opinion Byproduct. May contain traces.
(Currently looking for DevRel jobs; check me out at https://dylanlacey.com)
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