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Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost

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Followers
33K
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

📊 Post engagement

25
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since

🔥 Top post: Finally, the tactical Uno that will allow men to play Uno. · 83 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
6.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
11×
Follows 3.1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Finally, the tactical Uno that will allow men to play Uno. ★ 83
Excellent time to buy an HDD, thanks for this incredible opportunity. ★ 11 This Emily Wilson situation is a nightmare. All she had to do was nothing—this film is a cherry on top of a career-sundae already adorned with a gilded cherry. And instead this. It’s almost Greek-tragic in its hubris. Ir makes me even more… ★ 20 The plumber protects the health of the nation ★ 32 Remember Six Sigma? For a long time it seemed very important in business to reduce defects and errors, so much that there was a whole quasi-cult, quasi-science to it. Now maybe nobody cares? Defects and errors are widespread. ★ 56 I interviewed two ASMR creators for The Small Stuff (which has an ASMR chapter): a YouTube-famous one named Gibi ASMR and an up-and-coming Canadian creator called Tera ASMR. Tera made an ASMR video with my book, which is just, well, grat… ★ 12 I did a huge, massive interview with @annehelen.bsky.social about gratification and The Small Stuff, and I'm immensely grateful to her for printing a kind of preposterous number of words I wrote in response to her deep, excellent questions… ★ 14 How many versions of this rhetoric must we try before grasping that it doesn't work? "You silly citizen, you are wrong to think that the university is a place for elites who do not care about you. We care about you deeply as an instrument … ★ 11 If you were wondering how my new book The Small Stuff—which barely mention games at all—relates to my previous work in games, well I talked to @plante.bsky.social about that for his podcast Post Games: ★ 17 Sorry to post about philosophy, but as a panexperientialist who has spent 15 years failing to get that idea to catch on, both (pan)psychism and (pan)vitalism were bad ideas that are seductive because we humans are self-centered and like to… ★ 27 I don't know who needs this information, but hazelnut peels will not easily come off when you rub them in a dish towel after roasting, as all conventional wisdom claims. ★ 7 New issue of Workday Watch just dropped. ★ 6

🦋 Handle & authenticity

✅ Domain-verified
@ibogost.com
The handle is the domain ibogost.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real ibogost.com 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 25 views per post.
📤Posts about 6.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

58/100
Fair Credibility score
81%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com

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