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Followers
54K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$302 – $491 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
103
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: daringfireball.net/2026/06/om · 333 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.6 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
101×
Follows 535 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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I bet LeBron can fix this.
www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/...
Some bad blood. Some former high-level Apple executives putting a team of ex-Apple engineers and designers together to take on the iPhone. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.
daringfireball.net/2026/07/mo...
What gave Tim Cook's privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn't just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn't have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn't show you a…
Now that the US team has been knocked out, I need a new team to root for in the World Cup. I don't want my heart broken so I'll pick a team that never disappoints. I'm rooting for England.
“It's like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world's biggest hammer manufacturer.”
daringfireball.net/2026/07/clau...
All they need to do to fix headlines like this one is change "peace deal" to "supposed peace deal". It's like believing the kid saw a wolf after four consecutive months of endless false alarms.
apple.news/ALqQpnvdrQTmR7SojU...
Winning a championship someday will cure all, but after last night, Wemby wears a big "choker" sign around his neck. Put him under pressure and he folds (or flops).
Post-keynote "Tech Talk" in the Developer Center.
"Ceasefires" have been enshittified.
apple.news/Ax4EQFLmTSISfhQx-6...
Fucking clown show.
Things are going well.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@gruber.foo
The handle is the domain gruber.foo. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real gruber.foo account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Apr 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 103 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.6× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
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 (~0.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- 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.
About
I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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