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3.2K

Account age

8 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

2.7 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.7×

Follows 857 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post What's your favourite music with five or fewer supporters on bandcamp? ★ 62

The dynamicland approach to open source really went against the grain, but hits differently in 2026 https://dynamicland.org/2024/Is_Realtalk_open_source/ ★ 15 Thinking about earlier days of free software, I guess GPL was designed for a world where you might get a program on tape, floppy disk, or downloaded from a local BBS (probably historically inaccurate, but stay with me..). You might have an… ★ 46 I spent a while trying to work out when Tidal was born, but eventually realised it didn't have a birthday, it slowly emerged and came into focus over an extended, continuous series of experiments, events and collaborations.. However I did … ★ 18 Mine is Lost Coda, really calming https://lostcoda.bandcamp.com/ ★ 8 Still can't quite believe I've managed to wangle Switch Angel, Tim Exile, and badcirculation on to the same bill but this is happening on Thurs 30th July in Sheffield: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/patternclub/2071368 ★ 46 Thinking of hosting a 'permacomputing meetup'. What's a permacomputing meetup and what happens at them? ★ 14 Music is a great way to find friends with the same energy as you https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/1v1hw5k/musical_andor_artsy_folk_in_sheff/ ★ 9 Hopefully coding will become a lot easier post-AI, because all those corporate 'open source' frameworks will become even more unusable, and straightforward+minimal low/no dependency handmade code the norm. I still don't know what all these… ★ 26 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ri4FsInjHAk ★ 1 UK non-academic researchers! UK Research and Innovation have one research funding programme - 'Future Leaders Fellowships' - which allow and support applications from non-academic researchers, i.e. those hosted by business including non-pr… ★ 24 TOPLAP is the *Temporary* Organisation for Live Algorithm Programming, but is 22 years old and still going. I think it was actually disbanded at some point over 10 years ago but it carried on by mistake. The problem with vaguely anti-hiera… ★ 32

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post.lurk.org

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On Mastodon since

Apr 2018

An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 8 years ago.

👁️Averages 25 views per post.

📤Posts about 2.7× per week.

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Estimated

52/100

Fair Credibility score

76%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

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Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (8+ years old).

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

About

Non-academic #UKRIFLF research fellow at non-profit org @thentrythis, working on algorithmic patterns (@alpaca). Instigator of @tidalcycles, and co-founder of @algorave, @toplap, algomech festival, etc I tend to post live coding related things as @yaxu he/him #searchable

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