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Followers
65
Account age
1 yrs

📊 Post engagement

1
Avg engagement / post
1.5%
Engagement vs followers
Mar 2025
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: We've been having problems at work with a partition running full · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.12 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 4 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.4×
Follows 155 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post We've been having problems at work with a partition running full from a log file of 2 TB. An SQL server had been writing to the SAME log file since 2017! One I decided this is one of the top most fucked up IT things I've heard in a long time, Windows admins stepped in to early l… ★ 2
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116235185090539701 This is what everyone should read before considering to follow AI suggestions for any critical task. I just happened to witness some alleged experts ripping a virtualization clust… ★ 1 Das sind die Probleme, die dieses Land bewegen: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/kein-anspruch-porsche-bgh-100.html Since I don't feel like running a Matrix instance any longer: Does anyone have experience with SimpleX chat yet? Like, how stable is messaging, calls, etc., how is the overall UX? Maybe anyone even experience with running an own server? Is… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Mar 2025
An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

75/100 Good
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~1.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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

About

#infosec professional with academic #network and #security background. General interest in #science topics. #opensource enthusiast, #gentoo and #voidlinux. Enjoys #whisky and strange #movies. Admirer of #octopuses and #bees.

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Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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