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Followers
52
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

17
Avg engagement / post
32.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: »I’m still haunted by the fact that Microsoft announced a $10 bi · 108 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.12 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.3×
Follows 173 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post »I’m still haunted by the fact that Microsoft announced a $10 billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the research organization behind ChatGPT and DALL-E — and they made that announcement not five days after laying off 10,000 workers. It’s hard not to read that as a signal about th… ★ 108
Y’all know what this #WordPress kerfuffle means, right? We need to wake good ol’ #Textpattern from its long slumber. It’s been lying in waiting, carefully maintained, ready for a resurrection. It was the reason I never got on the WP train … ★ 2 “It turns out, people in tech are particularly bad at distinguishing between paradigm *shifts* and paradigm *sharts*. That’s why we have nose-diving cryptocurrencies, dust-collecting monkey JPEG portfolios, and AI-generated children’s book… ★ 1 Introducing my students to React via the brilliantly approachable Waku framework, so they learn RSC and the new React 19 mental model from the start. And they’re building personal portfolios to put it into practice, which has me all fired … Perfect framing: “Next.js is no longer a framework for building React apps. It's a framework for building Vercel apps. The sooner you realize it, the better.” https://maxr.dev/blog/thoughts-on-nextjs ★ 1 Driving to work through cold Scandinavian rain drizzling from a depthless gray sky in a VW station wagon. Pretending it is a Cadillac convertible cruising around Brooklyn. »No language model will be able to keep up with the pace of weird internet lingo and memes. I expect we'll lean into this. Using neologisms, jargon, euphemistic emoji, unusual phrases, ingroup dialects, and memes-of-the-moment will help si… For anyone pushing birdsite émigrés to “just boost more content, that’s the entire algorithm on Mastodon”: Do you know what Twitter has been like these past few years? There are so many bots, trolls, reply guys, bigots and bad faith actor… ★ 1 »You don’t have to be the same old jackass kicking against the sheet metal walls of the old barn, which made the old barn an unsufferable place to be and ultimately why it fell. You can be a carpenter this time around.« — Dave Rupert, @dav… ★ 1 »Phones (and… social media in particular) have an abundant sense of restlessness—I feel as if I am scurrying from one notification to the next like a hunted animal, one item in the feed, after another, after another, never stopping or ling… So far I’ve had zero urge to seek out the journalists and pundits that kept my birdsite feed constantly overflowing with news. My Mastodon feed has been virtually news-free so far, as seems to generally have been the culture here for a lo… ★ 2 Really enjoying the slow, manual process of finding people to follow here. Some show up serendipitously in my feed via boosts. Some I suddenly realize I miss from Twitter. Many I’ve found by looking for familiar names in other people’s fo…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
indieweb.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 17 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

89/100 Excellent
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~0.3× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
99%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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

About

Web fanboy. A decade in the frontend dev trenches, now teaching new web developers at Business Academy Aarhus how to navigate this crazy world we’ve built out of JS. Into #RemixRun and the #UseThePlatform resurgence. And #Indieweb is rekindling my original love for the open web. Émigré from https://twitter.com/bewildergeist

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