Caitlin Dewey
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Followers
345
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

📊 Post engagement

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

🔥 Top post: Apparently we're on the "bad" journalism server. Typical! I look · 3 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.15 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
12×
Follows 28 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
🔥 Top post Apparently we're on the "bad" journalism server. Typical! I look forward to eventually figuring out how to navigate these unfindable little fiefdoms. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php ★ 3
I don’t want you to think I’m looking for sympathy. Sympathy actually embarrasses me a bit. If anything, I’m writing to underscore the absurdity, the heartlessness, of this mutual charade wherein we all play down our grief, wherein we keep… Wrote about a rare, good internet mystery https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/helicopter-parents-cheap-tequila It feels absolutely terrifying to bare your soul on the internet in the year of our lord 2023 ... but I'll keep doing it if it draws even a smidge of attention to this issue that's intensely important to me https://substack.com/home/post/p… I learned of this issue as a patient, not a journalist: I lost a pregnancy last summer. I wanted the most effective medications to manage my miscarriage ... and was baffled (also: angry!!) when I couldn't access them. For Stateline, I dug … Wrote about the anonymous Telegram channel surfacing so much of the imagery you've see from Israel this week https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/the-anonymous-telegram-channel-bearing Huge historic snowstorm bearing down on Buffalo. We're compulsively refreshing our feeds for hours. On here ... two posts, that I can find?? One of them by a coworker? What alternative platforms are you turning to for those types of local… ★ 1 Does this mean I can just mess around like I did on 2009 Twitter...?? Here's a picture of my dog. I had a bagel sandwich for breakfast. etc. ★ 2 15 minutes in, and I've already observed three #followfridays AND a what-I-ate-for-breakfast-style toot. It's like Twitter in 2009 and I am here for it. ★ 2

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
89%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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

About

Freelance reporter in Buffalo, advisor at Poynter, writer of Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends, mother to a very bad German shepherd.

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