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πŸ“£Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $12β†’ 🧡Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story β€” the fediverse rewards dept… $30β†’ πŸ“¦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product β€” I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $16β†’ πŸ“ŒPinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $36/moβ†’ πŸ”—Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $18/moβ†’ πŸ”Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month β€” di… $24/moβ†’ πŸ›οΈInstance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run β€” a sponsor line in the About/rules… $30/moβ†’ 🀝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances β€” a value swap between … Swapβ†’

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Followers
314
Account age
3 yrs

πŸ“Š Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since

πŸ”₯ Top post: Yesterday the AU Prime Minister said "...extremists and state ac Β· 2 likes + reposts

πŸ“Š Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.63 / week
A lower-frequency account β€” each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text Β· 0 image Β· 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8Γ—
Follows 385 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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πŸ”₯ Top post Yesterday the AU Prime Minister said "...extremists and state actors already use AI to create propaganda aimed at young people - and to spread disinformation that targets democracies." Why is the risk always discussed as apparently only being significant for young people? I'd su… β˜… 2
Writing a lot of content in #ASCIIDOC and discovered #livejs to hot load my edits for preview. Just add the script to your docinfo file when building on desktop (using fswatch to detect changes and do the rebuild on edit save). Changes ge… Well sounds like a good reason to be careful and avoid the gym. I knew I was doing the right thing https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/jun/30/exertional-rhabdomyolysis-cause Wordle 1,836 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Updated the #Obsidian random quotes code for #Templater plugin to work with CORS. See https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2476526 and https://forum.obsidian.md/t/random-quotes-using-the-templater-and-admonitions-plugins/22931/11 (change made by … So this is embarrasing. After avoiding Windoze for the last three years, I've installed #Win11 Pro (because I have to present a workshop to non technical peeps) and it's not terrible. As good as I remember Windows 2000 and MS-DOS 3.12 W… Replaced my macBook with a #Linux laptop (Windows never got a chance to boot). Using #Kubuntu & I like #KDE (probably 10y since my last try). I'm happy, but it's not seamless. Not sure how civilians are expected to manage the Linux corner … I have LESS=N in my env but that messes up man with line numbers, so `MANPAGER='less -+N'` gets rid of that. Also worth a look if you are getting raw ANSI displayed because of the -R option #Linux #HandyTip "What a difference a '-j' makes" is the song I am singing this morning Just remembered my laptop has lots of cores and if I pass `-j` to `make` then everything runs faster :-). #GNUMake #OldSchool #ModernHardware Looking forward to hearing @KathyReid talk about Common Voice API at the VIC State Library in 10m. #DigitalInclusion A handy shell script to generate decent passwords. Will need tweaking depending which version of *NIX you are running. #!/bin/dash head -c 20 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | sed -n '2p' So after a number of years using either MSWindows+WSL or macOS as my desktop OS I have moved to Linux and KDE. Apart from no 1st class support for Google Drive (I've moved to pDrive) it's been a +ve experience. KDE has come a long way. WPA… β˜… 2

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
mstdn.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community β€” this one spans all topics.
βœ… Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile β€” Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 β€” part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

πŸ’‘ Facts

πŸ—“οΈJoined Mastodon in 2022 β€” 3 years ago.
πŸ‘οΈAverages 2 views per post.
πŸ“€Posts about 0.6Γ— per week.

πŸ›‘οΈ Audience credibility

76/100 Good
  • Est. 85% real, active audience Β· Low fake-follower risk.
  • Content engagement (~0.6% of followers) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
85%
Fake-follower risk
Low

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth β€” a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Old school software geek, atheist, and sexagenarian (because I'm sexy?). Sometimes uses naughty words. Be excellent to each other! ====================== Interested in #DevRel, #Docker, #Linux, #Python, #Go, Programming Tech, Tech education, #DocsAsCode, and #Stoicism. Currently learning how to integrate #Obsidian into my workflows. Location: Bunurong Land, Melbourne, Australia Pronouns: he/him (https://pronoun.is/he) Contact details on my vanity site, no time wasters please!

πŸ”€ Audience overlap

Estimated

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Jay Peach Jay Peach 18% Not The LBC Guy Not The LBC Guy 14% ☭. evie ☭. evie 14% Juan Melli Juan Melli 13% Kassander Kassander 11% nsi_xyz nsi_xyz 11%

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