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Followers
2.5K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Oct 17latest
6
Avg engagement / post
2–11
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
61/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 11 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: I flipped when I noticed this. (See what I did there?) https://w · 16 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
6 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.7×
Follows 377 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
I flipped when I noticed this. (See what I did there?)
https://www.theautopian.com/a-typography-geek-pointed-out-something-about-the-space-shuttle-discovery-and-now-i-cant-unsee-it/
Sign the petition to save the AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater.
https://c.org/rbdmGrHcQs
Early voting: achievement unlocked.
Was it a mistake for A List Apart to take a more holistic focus on the making of websites? Depends how you look at it.
https://zeldman.com/2026/10/29/the-day-the-focus-died/
If your site is hosted on WordPress.com, WordPress VIP, WP Cloud, Pressable, or Tumblr, your site is already protected from the #PHP2Shell vulnerabilities.
https://automattic.com/2026/10/21/your-sites-are-protected-against-the-php2shell-vu…
Eric Lipton shares a warm, human reassessment of the aesthetics, vision, and legacy of Detroit architect MInoru Yamasaki, who designed the old World Trade Center in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/arts/design/world-trade-cente…
At one end of the onboarding bell curve is passive instruction that users find boring and restrictive. On the other is chucking new users into the deep end of a complicated product.
Optimal onboarding is about finding the amount of frictio…
How big was the internet? Or at least, how many new .com sites did each year produce?
If you only count sites that are still around, 2025 produced about 5.5 times as many as 2016. Include the ones that have since moved off this mortal plan…
Figma Tips and Shortcuts I Wish I Knew Earlier https://automattic.design/2026/10/19/figma-tips-and-shortcuts-i-wish-i-knew-earlier/
For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock, and beyond.
https://zeldman.com/2026/10/19/now-playing-side-two/
Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/17/smartglasses-robogroping-toxic-tren…
🎧 Record release — listening party! SIDE TWO by yours truly is now available on Bandcamp. Tell your friends. Enjoy, won’t you? Thank you.
https://jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/album/side-two
#funk #hiphop #soundtrack #jazz #ambient #newmus…
Early voting: achievement unlocked.
Was it a mistake for A List Apart to take a more holistic focus on the making of websites? Depends how you look at it.
https://zeldman.com/2026/10/29/the-day-the-focus-died/
If your site is hosted on WordPress.com, WordPress VIP, WP Cloud, Pressable, or Tumblr, your site is already protected from the #PHP2Shell vulnerabilities.
https://automattic.com/2026/10/21/your-sites-are-protected-against-the-php2shell-vu…
Eric Lipton shares a warm, human reassessment of the aesthetics, vision, and legacy of Detroit architect MInoru Yamasaki, who designed the old World Trade Center in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/arts/design/world-trade-cente…
At one end of the onboarding bell curve is passive instruction that users find boring and restrictive. On the other is chucking new users into the deep end of a complicated product.
Optimal onboarding is about finding the amount of frictio…
How big was the internet? Or at least, how many new .com sites did each year produce?
If you only count sites that are still around, 2025 produced about 5.5 times as many as 2016. Include the ones that have since moved off this mortal plan…
Figma Tips and Shortcuts I Wish I Knew Earlier https://automattic.design/2026/10/19/figma-tips-and-shortcuts-i-wish-i-knew-earlier/
For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock, and beyond.
https://zeldman.com/2026/10/19/now-playing-side-two/
Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/17/smartglasses-robogroping-toxic-tren…
🎧 Record release — listening party! SIDE TWO by yours truly is now available on Bandcamp. Tell your friends. Enjoy, won’t you? Thank you.
https://jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/album/side-two
#funk #hiphop #soundtrack #jazz #ambient #newmus…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
front-end.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 6× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
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 (~0.2% 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
Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.
🔀 Audience overlap
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