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Account age
9 yrs
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Known for
143 views
Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.
110 views
whoops
20 views
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/116715671227589712
I also wrote in this post about something I noticed in my inbox lately: a bunch of polished single-serving sites with italic serif fonts with red accents and tiny all-caps monospaced fonts on a cream background, all from different people who I'm not entirely sure know who I am.
📊 Post engagement
62
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: RE: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/116772625748491745 I wrote about how · 267 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.96 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
18×
Follows 818 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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I'm kidding, of course. I would never watch a movie this epic as a pirated cam on my computer! I'll wait to watch it on my phone during my next long-haul flight.
Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.
whoops
Manu Moreale interviewed me for People and Blogs, the second-to-last edition of his long-running series before he passes on the torch to a new custodian. I talked a bit about the history of @waxy, my information diet, and some recs for oth…
There's so much to dislike here, it's hard to know where to start. The "Submit Your Sorrows" feature is particularly galling, in which you describe an emotion or feeling and an AI generates a word, definition, and slop art for it.
I confirmed from Koenig himself that he wasn't involved, and found Simon & Schuster issued DMCA takedowns to Google with little effect. The AEO/SEO-optimized site dominates every search related to the book, including the book title and aut…
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/116715671227589712
I also wrote in this post about something I noticed in my inbox lately: a bunch of polished single-serving sites with italic serif fonts with red accents and tiny all-caps monospaced fonts on …
FaceID never recognizes me when I wake up in the morning and, every time, it feels like a personal insult.
@mwichary Your latest post reminds me of a deranged macOS shortcut I use all the time: ⌘-Ctrl-Shift-4 to save a portion of the screen to the clipboard. https://unsung.aresluna.org/save-for-web-claws/
Over on @waxy, I wrote about one part of building the new Explore website: spelunking through 25+ different sites we made for XOXO over 12 years to migrate them to new hosting, a time capsule of trends in web dev tooling. https://waxy.org/…
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/116500189290550280
Last chance to get the XOXO merch before we shut it down forever!
Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.
whoops
Manu Moreale interviewed me for People and Blogs, the second-to-last edition of his long-running series before he passes on the torch to a new custodian. I talked a bit about the history of @waxy, my information diet, and some recs for oth…
There's so much to dislike here, it's hard to know where to start. The "Submit Your Sorrows" feature is particularly galling, in which you describe an emotion or feeling and an AI generates a word, definition, and slop art for it.
I confirmed from Koenig himself that he wasn't involved, and found Simon & Schuster issued DMCA takedowns to Google with little effect. The AEO/SEO-optimized site dominates every search related to the book, including the book title and aut…
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/116715671227589712
I also wrote in this post about something I noticed in my inbox lately: a bunch of polished single-serving sites with italic serif fonts with red accents and tiny all-caps monospaced fonts on …
FaceID never recognizes me when I wake up in the morning and, every time, it feels like a personal insult.
@mwichary Your latest post reminds me of a deranged macOS shortcut I use all the time: ⌘-Ctrl-Shift-4 to save a portion of the screen to the clipboard. https://unsung.aresluna.org/save-for-web-claws/
Over on @waxy, I wrote about one part of building the new Explore website: spelunking through 25+ different sites we made for XOXO over 12 years to migrate them to new hosting, a time capsule of trends in web dev tooling. https://waxy.org/…
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/116500189290550280
Last chance to get the XOXO merch before we shut it down forever!
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
xoxo.zone
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
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 62 views per post.
📤Posts about 1× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I write @waxy, made @xoxo, Skittish, Upcoming.org, Belong.io, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter. P.S. I love you.
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